You can’t ever take for granted the right to vote
There’s nothing like a drive from Maryland, where I live, to Louisiana, where I was born, to refresh my appreciation for the right to vote.
Passing through Jackson, Miss., brings back memories too. It was June 1963. I was 8 years old, at home in Shreveport, watching my dad and a neighbor starring solemnly at a TV news broadcast. A man had just been killed while standing in his driveway in Jackson.It would take several years for me to appreciate the significance of what had happened — that the man was Medgar Evers of the NAACP and that he had been assassinated by a white supremacist for helping Black people register to vote.
In Maryland, the process of voting is as it should be everywhere in this country. I can vote early. I can vote by mail, by drop box or in person. The state board of elections website shows you how to register to vote, how to get a ballot sent to your home, how to properly cast and track your ballot.You can use the website to learn how to become a candidate and what some offices entail so you can match a candidate’s qualifications with the job requirements.
At the top of the ballot, for governor, there’s the Democratic nominee — an African American Rhodes scholar, combat veteran and anti-poverty advocate who believes strongly that education is the key to the state’s democratic future.
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