00:00In my opinion, more people need to vote in state and local elections in New York City and the United States as a whole.
00:10More people need to run in state and local elections. That's it. That's my opinion.
00:19I'm located in Manhattan, New York City, but I think this applies to a lot of places.
00:23I think I read that if a state and local election is not on the same day as the presidential election, the majority of people don't vote.
00:38These state and local politicians are extremely powerful.
00:42So, that's basically it.
00:45You know, I always treat everyone that works for the government respectfully, and I make the best out of all situations.
00:54But I just, like, you know, I just, in my opinion, I'm 48 years old.
01:03I just, like, I just think that more people need to get involved with the process as far as voting and running.
01:10And I'm trying to see what I can do personally, you know, just as a regular person.
01:19I don't work for the government or anything.
01:20Oh, and I'm not Democrat and I'm not Republican.
01:23I'm independent.
01:24So, I don't care who you vote for, but, like, I'm glad I almost forgot.
01:29In my opinion, I mean, it's just, I mean, you know, check the Internet.
01:34Look at the percentages of people that are voting.
01:36I mean, if you're watching this right now, how many different elections could you vote in from your location right now?
01:44Like, it's a lot of different elections.
01:48I think a lot of them are spread out on different days.
01:53So, we need to just, you know, in my opinion, we need to get more people involved in the process.
02:03And, like I said, I'm not Democrat, I'm not Republican, so I'm thinking about ways as just a, you know, I don't know, citizen, how I can get involved with the process, you know.
02:15And I definitely want to get involved more and more, even if it's just inspiring people to vote.
02:23Because, I mean, I don't want to say numbers, but, like, you can look up on the Internet.
02:29And once I get, like, more, like, actual facts, I'm going to keep expanding on this topic.
02:34But, I mean, the numbers of people voting in some of these state and local elections are really low.
02:42And these politicians are extremely powerful.
02:44And in addition to voting, more people need to think about running, in my opinion.
