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Fabiana Perera
Why I Vote: Fabiana’s Perspective (BU Washington Staff)
By Fabiana Perera
Fall 2012
The very short answer is that I vote because I was born in New Jersey. When you are born in the US (say in New Jersey, for example) and grow up knowing that you can vote and maybe hearing that voting is useless or time consuming or inconvenient, you forget that
voting is a privilege afforded only to those who are citizens of this country. Thanks to the generosity of the writers of the US constitution, my parents’ careers, and the outstanding staff at Saint Barnaba’s Medical Center in Livingstone, NJ, I was born in the US and thus afforded the privilege to vote even when nobody else in my family can.
