[FlamesAllTheWay]

I definitely voted. I, personally, am very interested in politics at home and abroad so this sort of thing is always of interest to me. But I think this puts me in a very small minority of kids my age. Some reasons I think people my age don't vote are laziness, apathy, lack of understanding or knowledge about candidates/parties/politics, feeling their vote wont matter.

The way I see it, if you don't vote then don't complain about the way the country is being run. We are very lucky to have a say, how very small it may be, in who we want in power. Also, voting shows respect to all the vetrans of WW1, WW2, etc, where people fought and died for our freedom so we could do things like take part in elections. So I see it as somewhat of a responsibility of mine to go and vote when the opportunity comes up...