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[email protected]. PAGE 2 OCTOBER 11, 2016 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OPINION MICHAELA ROMÁN, 747-7477 Don’t vote; Organize BY CHRISTIAN VASQUEZ for you so you can relax after a hard day’s work, which is under- The Prospector standable, but understanding why ere is a you do nothing except vote once phrase that gets every four years changes nothing. tossed around: When you vote, you are saying, “If you don’t vote, “Here, you solve this problem.” By you have no right voting, the individual falls under to complain.” But the illusion that their contribu- what if I don’t like tion to maintaining society is fin- the candidates? ished. The power to solve poverty, Or if I think the president’s office to help the environment, to build has too much power? Not voting better infrastructure is still within can be just as great a political state- the masses.