@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social I'm not from a nation where I can't vote; I'm from a nation where I MUST vote -- and I'm STILL aghast at seeing people refuse to vote. Voting isn't a right, it is a duty (and I will happily pay the fine if I have slacked off in this duty.) (I did that once, local council elections, the snails ate my ballot paper, but the election officials didn't consider that an acceptable excuse, and that's fair enough, since the snails would not have had an opportunity to eat my ballot if I had emptied my mailbox a few days earlier...) #Voting