Why It Is Important To Vote

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It is highly important to vote. It is important to vote because voting is equivalent to expressing an opinion in class. Its to express your opinion about what you think, ordinarily to be heard about what your thoughts are on the topic. Voting for President of the United States means, you are getting your opinion of who you believe would be a great leader and who you believe could accomplish outstanding changes to the Country. The two nominees for this year's election is, Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton. One Democrat and one Republican. Voting was open on November 19th, and it was all over the news, talking about it at schools, and a few days before there was a website open for the kids, or teenagers,

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