As the midterm elections approach soon, I hope that each and every one of you who read this are already registered to vote. Next week is the last week one can register to vote at the DMV or the County Treasurer. So if you’re a young woman eligible to vote and are not registered, register as soon as possible because you are the most powerful voting demographic.
“Women make the difference.
According to exit polls, 53 percent of voters in the 2012 elections were women, which means that women determined the outcome of the presidential election.
Dianne Bystrom, the director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics at Iowa State University, says the reason the gender gap is critical is that more women are registered to vote than men in most states and there is a much higher female turnout rate at the polls. In the 2008 election, 10 million more women than men voted. The equation is simple: more female voters=more female power, especially in battleground states where women out-vote men in the hundreds of thousands.
With women deciding the presidential election, and with record numbers of women in both the House and the Senate, America’s policies will look very different in the next decade than it did in the last. Women determine the outcome of the way the government looks, and now economic fairness, pay equity, and issues of work-family balance are making their way to the top of the policy agenda.” https://voterunlead.org/go-vote/womens-vote/
I encourage you all to vote in this next election because your vote affects what policy personally affects you dependent on your beliefs, whether that is Liberal or Conservative. Women turn out in amazing numbers and I hope that you all exercise this wonderful freedom that women are so important to!