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<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I asked Veronica if she wanted to come Vote with me. She got all excited and said she wanted to go on the boat.<\/p>\n
whoops. No, I had to explain to her with new words that we were going to vote, she would get a sticker. And voting is how we pick the people that were in charge. The president, congress senators, governors…and she’d get a sticker.<\/p>\n
I told her she had to be a big girl to vote. ‘I’m a big girl.”<\/p>\n
“How old are you?”<\/p>\n
“I’m four”<\/p>\n
“You have to be 18 to vote. That is fourteen years away.”<\/p>\n
The people inside were very friendly, no surprise. I showed her the signs in different languages. The offered her a sticker right away, and then greeted her in spanish, vietnamese and chinese.<\/p>\n
Ni Hao!<\/p>\n
She pressed the inka dot for me, and the poll worker let her put the ballot into the machine.<\/p>\n
She said goodbye to everyone, and carried my sample ballot home.<\/p>\n
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I asked Veronica if she wanted to come Vote with me. She got all excited and said she wanted to go on the boat. whoops. No, I had to explain to her with new words that we were going to … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"