Faith: Voting is important, not simple

Election Day has not yet arrived as I write this, but it will be over by the time you are reading this. Or I should say that the day of going to the voting booth is over. Not all of the counting is complete and, I am assuming, there will be a lot more about the election as challenges and lawsuits work their way through the legal and court system. We will have a general idea about the results of our local, state and national elections. I remember the very first election where I was eligible to vote. It was Nov. 4, 1980. The two choices for president were Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. I had just begun my first year in college in August 1980, but I must have driven back to my home in the Sandhills of Nebraska because I remember going to the the two-room country school that served as the polling place for the community. The voting precinct covered a large geographic area, but a very low population.

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