To the editor:

Daily, in this paper, there are complaints about our city/county government and the decisions they make.

Where are your votes at election time? For over 12 years I worked as a supervising judge at the precinct where I live. For most of the small city/county elections anywhere from 125 to maybe 300 people, out of about 1,700 constituents would come out to vote. Usually it was the same voter-conscious people who voted. Huge lines would form when it was time for general elections, for governor/president. But it is the small city elections that make the most difference in our lives.

We complain about the immigration problem, but these are people who come from horrendous political situations to live in America where they have the freedom to vote. And you give it up for who knows what. Unless you are Native American, all your ancestors were immigrants. Mine were.

Don’t complain that your vote doesn’t count, because it does. You are exercising a right that so many people in this world are dying for, literally! Don’t complain until you have walked in their shoes. And please vote, before that right is taken away from you. It’s close to happening right now.