I seriously considered leaving some of the elections positions blank on my ballot - thinking
that I didn't want to be held accountable for choosing either Donald
Trump or Hillary Clinton as our next president.
But beyond being a cop-out, I remembered that
an Election Volunteer in Florida was caught filling in her own choice
when opening early ballots with no vote. I realized I HAD
to choose.
There is not a way to avoid responsibility for voting,
because NOT CHOOSING was literally allowing some random person to choose
for me instead - whether it is an unethical elections volunteer or
someone else who voted when I did not.
I remembered living in Mexico and having as a hostess someone who counted ballots during their elections. Mexico requires citizens to vote, at least they did then in order to get certain privileges. But they also allowed for write in candidates - or people did it anyway. "For decades," she explained "Su mama came in first place, Mickey Mouse came in second place, then the incumbent party's candidate came in third. but the first two were never announced." I suddenly understand!
I am not suggesting you vote for a Disney character or someone's mother, but I am suggesting there are other choices...though a third party candidate or a write-in likely is a throw away vote.
So I will choose based not on the person on the presidential line of the ballot, or even for the political party, but for who I would like to be nominating the next three Supreme Court Judges, and therefore likely affecting our country's future not for four years, but for decades.
"All a person's ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the LORD." Proverbs 16:2
Why do I place this verse on this blog post? Because making good choices are NOT always easy. And not choosing IS choosing. So in every difficult situation, pray, seek what is right, and be accountable to no one but God. That, indeed, may even be harder than knowing who to vote for in this election, but we are held to a higher standard and a higher power than the President of the United States...One who is not limited in how He is able to acts...not even by the winner of an election.
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