If you haven't watched the video associated with this blog yet, you can see it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XChb49oUa2o “project VOTE” came from an idea, a feeling, a discomfort I had with noticing how many people are saying they are not going to vote in the upcoming presidential election. Wait - let me back up. Elections are important to me. Democracy is important. I don’t know why really – politics are not something I remember as being central to my upbringing. My family didn’t really discuss politics. I don’t remember going to a polling place with my parents (though maybe I did?). I don’t remember dinner conversations about political issues or candidates. My first memory of elections is when I could vote in the 1984 presidential race - I was excited to cast that first ballot. Fast forward a couple of decades. I now live near the capital of our country (“one stoplight from DC” as all local real estate ads in my neighborhood say). “Local” polit