Today's voting success

Millions of absentee ballots have been submitted. Young people from all over the country have registered for the first time. An amazing number of people voted early, hoping to ensure their vote would be counted. Across the country there are unusually long lines in many voting districts. Regardless of the final voting outcome, today’s great democratic success will be the high voter turnout. While the question of our country’s next leader remains unknown, we do know that the right to vote is being exercised by many, likely in record numbers. The American people want to be heard.

Newsday reports, “there has been a four-decade trend of declining voter participation that has given the United States one of the world's lowest voting rates.Up to 120 million people are expected to cast ballots, about 60 percent of eligible voters and an increase from 105 million in 2000, when turnout was 51 percent.”