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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our office is open. There used to be SACC on Election Day.  Now this is a struggle for the single, working parent. [/quote]

Me! I'm a single, working parent and our care is closed. If school or care was open I could go vote easily.[/quote]

I remember taking my DC to vote when he was a toddler, waiting in lines after work hours, it wasn't easy but we did it together. If I held him he didn't mind waiting, he was a cuddle bug. I'd explain to him why we were there and that it might take a bit of time but that what we were doing was important. He'd entertain himself by people-watching, taking a stroll up and down the hallway.

Later on, we still ventured out and when he asked why we had to wait I said because it is our civic duty to vote, I would tell him how people like us were once upon a time denied the right to vote, and later took their lives into their hands in order to execute their right to vote, endured indignities that neither he nor I will ever have to endure in order to vote... each year the lessons progressed in complexity.

When I went to vote on Tuesday my now tween, who is well into the stage where he can be left alone for hours at a time, still insisted on accompanying me to the voting booth (this from a kid who'd rather spend time with almost anyone else these days).

The ballot was a bit boring this time around, but he still wanted to read it and did his part by inserting it into the scanner and collecting his sticker on the way out.

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