What's your earliest memory of voting?

[pinboy3niner]

18. What I remember is volunteering my home as a polling place for a few years

It was in the '70s, when I was in my twenties and going to college after already having been to war. (My first ballots weren't so memorable because they were military absentee ballots).

But when my home was the polling place, staying home and watching the voters come in (and keeping the pollworkers supplied with coffee ) was impressive and was a great feeling.

These days I sometimes do absentee ballots, but other times I prefer to vote in person at my polling place just to have that hands-on feeling and to take it all in--the pollworkers, the citizens showing up to cast their ballots.

As cynical as we can be at times, that process will never fail to impress me.