Time to Decide

The Mister and I both voted last week, and now the early voting is closed. But the election is Tuesday (and I think if you live in Morrison Ranch so far, your polling place is the library), and since my nature as a mom is to kind of remind and encourage, I'll be reminding you to go vote. Politics can be distasteful in the rhetoric, at least to a mom who likes everyone to play nice; but even more distasteful is not partaking in the process and influencing how things turn out.

The town says that only about 16% of registered voters in Gilbert will actually vote:

A total of 7,649 votes were cast in the last Berman-Dunham race in 2001, or roughly 16.5 percent of the town's 46,268 registered voters, according to town election data.

The May 2003 general election drew 17 percent of Gilbert's 53,528 registered voters, the highest turnout for a council race in the past 15 years.