Question: What Are You Doing Today?

Answer: Unless you took part in Massachusetts’ Early Voting Opportunity, I sincerely hope that “Voting” makes up at least part of your answer.

After 19 months of campaign speeches and television commercials and pop-up ads and debates and late-breaking news announcements, it’s finally, finally time when we, the people, get to do something, to have a say in who makes our laws, and what those laws are.

I think it’s easy, in a time when your opinion is solicited from so many places, whether it’s the comment cards at a restaurant or a feedback response request from an online vendor, a telephone survey from the cable repair service or an online form from the car dealer, that we forget what a rare and precious and incredible thing an election really is.

So get out there and vote, ok?

If you need information about where to vote, you can find it right here: Google’s voting map

If you need a refresher on the Ballot Questions in Massachusetts, check out the Secretary of the Commonwealth’s Website here.

If you encounter any problems at the polls, remember: first, address the officers monitoring the polls.  Then call 1-866-OUR-VOTE.

And remember, in the words of Franklin Roosevelt, a pretty good president himself:

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.