Question of the Week: Will You Be Voting in the 2024 Presidential Election

The U.S. presidential election is November 5, 2024. Voters in each state and the District of Columbia will choose electors to the Electoral College, who will then elect a president and vice president of the United States for a term of four years. We asked Bluefield University students if they plan to vote in this year’s presidential election and if they think voting is important. Here’s what they had to say.

• Tia Jones, Graphic Communication and Digital Marketing
  Yes, I do plan to vote in this year’s presidential election. I believe it’s important to vote because it’s a fundamental right and responsibility in a democracy. Voting allows us to have a say in the direction of our country and ensures that our voices are heard on important issues that affect our lives and communities.
• Abbie Bradley, Music with a Christian Studies Minor
  This year will be my first year voting in a presidential election. When I was in high school, I was so enamored with politics that I joked I’d like to get a fake ID, not so I could drink, but so I could vote. I can’t say that I’m as in love with politics now as I was in high school, but I still believe that it is incredibly important to vote. Our country is an example of one of the few democratic nations in all of human history. We have a privilege to choose our nation’s leaders that the vast majority of humanity has not had and still does not have. Frankly, in the short period of history that the United States of America has even existed, this election may be one of the most important elections in the “American experiment.” The United States is just that — an experiment. I believe that the outcome of this election may make or break the success of that experiment. Many Americans may not realize what a privilege it is to vote, or a privilege it is to live in the freest nation in the world. We know nothing different than the America that we know. If we don’t vote, the outcome of this election may lead to the downfall of the America we love.
• Jonathan Collier, Cybersecurity
  I plan to vote in this year’s presidential election because it is a way I can have an impact on the policies and legislation occurring in our government by voting for who I want to see in positions of political influence.
• Emma Vickers, Forensic Science and Criminal Justice

  I do plan on voting in the 2024 presidential election because our country has not been run properly in the past four years, and I’m sure many others would agree with me that it needs to change for the better. The only way to do that is to speak with our candidate choice in this election.

• Jay Phelps, Business
  I will be voting this election. It is very important to vote in this day and time. It’s our future leader of the USA. You are picking a person to run the country. I think that’s something to take pride in voting.