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Why I Will Not Be Voting In The 2016 Election

Why I Will Not Be Voting In The 2016 Election
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With the new Presidential election coming up in November, I am someone that does not think that voting will be something that I can say that I would like to do.

Yes, I am aware that would be giving up one of my rights that I should be taking advantage of. I mean, come on, who wouldn't want to help vote for the next leader of our country? Well, I am one of those people that do not wish to vote and I will tell you why.

The candidates that we have to choose from are both going to be evil for our country. So, picking between the two would be basically picking the lesser of the evils in your opinion. I would not like to be a part of picking someone that will turn this country into something worse than it already is. Do not get me wrong, I love this country and the freedom that I do have, but there will always be things that we need to improve on. At this time, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are two people that I do not wish to be president.

For one, How can you elect Hillary Clinton as our president when she sent and received classified material on her private server and then withheld almost three dozen emails until this year? As it would be awesome to finally have a woman in office, I don't believe Hillary Clinton is the right woman for the job. Also, Donald Trump has a child rape case filed against him that somehow got lost in all of the current media that surrounds him. Not only that, but he has a sexual assault case filed against him as well. Despite all of these, Mr. Trump is sexist, racist, and above all else, does not seem to have any good clue about how to run this country.

Despite all of the good things that can come along with new president, I do not feel that Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton would be best suited to take on that role and be a leader. They have multiple faults and in my opinion and do not belong in such a powerful position.

Yes, I may be 18 years old, but that does not mean that I am completely uneducated about the elections or that I do not pay attention to them. As the older generation thinks that we will ruin the country with this election, I believe that most of our generation will try and fix the way that the older generation has decided to run things. The world is constantly changing but for once, we need a good change with this election. I will not be picking the lesser of the evilsl I will not be picking one of those evils at all. Either way, our country will not be in a very good place after this election.

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