Election Day.

Happy Midterm Election Day. This is the second election I will be covering as a reporter. Although that means one long night of following the polls, waiting up late for results and making phone calls to candidates at all hours of the night, it's also very exciting. The story I write tonight is the one that will tell those in my community whether or not the person they bubbled in on a scantron ballot will be the one who will serve in office in the next coming years.

One of the first things I did when I moved to St. Augustine was register to vote in this county. I, like all other seniors in high school, registered to vote in my home county near the end of my high school career. But I didn't cast my first ballot until I moved to Orlando for college, where I registered in that county to vote in the primaries. And now, as a young adult, I find it more important than ever to get out and vote.

It's unfortunate that many look at my age group (30-something and younger) are the least likely to vote. Its sad, but true. There are so many uninformed young people out there - many of whom I went to school (whether that be high school, or even college) with. People are lazy. They don't want to stand in line, they don't want to read up on amendments they don't understand and then there are those who just vote the way their parents tell them. Not only is this embarrassing, but what does this say about our future?

There's some feeling of importance when you turn in that ballot. I remember waiting in line for hours to cast my vote in the past presidential election. And although I stood in a line that twisted around a parking lot, moving mere inches every few minutes, I felt good turning in that ballot.

People don't read and they don't care. And that scares me. But how do you reach an audience so complacent, so content with not caring about who is elected into office? Even I don't know how to begin to answer that question.