This isn’t going to be your typical run-of-the-mill voting column.
By now, everyone knows how important it is to vote. Election Day is tomorrow. Voting registration is past. It’s time to do our civic duty and get out to the polls.
This column isn’t going to be about who you should vote for either.
Again, I figure at this point, everyone has made up their minds one way or the other and a few words won’t sway someone in a different direction.
Instead, this column is going to be simply about this: Don’t vote independent this year in the presidential election.
This year is too important to waste your vote, and unfortunately, that’s what voting independent is doing.
I’ve made the mistake before. I voted independent in the 2016 election back when I was living in Pennsylvania, and I’ll never do it again.
I’m not necessarily saying one vote — my vote — would’ve made the difference, but if no one voted independent, it certainly would have.
It’s an unfortunate system we live under. The fact that only two candidates are up for arguably the most important job in the world is a little bit ridiculous, but the fact remains: Donald Trump or Kamala Harris will be the next president of the United States. No matter how many people think they can change the system, it’s not going to happen — at least not this year.
Instead of voting independent and thinking you got something over on someone by not voting for Trump or Harris, do your part and vote intelligently.
Make sure you are collecting as much information as possible — and from reliable sources — before you make an informed vote for either Trump or Harris.
Lizi Arbogast Gwin is the managing editor for Tallapoosa Publishers Inc.
