Took my four year old daughter to the polls with me.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

We waited over a half hour in line. She didn't mind. An Obama sign waiver was gracious enough to give her a flag, so she spent the time waiving it and singing (over and over, mind you) "Red, White and Blue, Red White and Blue, Your flag and my flag is Red White and Blue."

If you have a young child who has the ability to stand reasonably still and has a chance to take them with you to vote, please do. Let them know that it is an important right and one that should always be exercised.

[Mass]

1. Wonderful. I loved to take my kids with me when they were young.

Now they both vote and voted by absentee ballot.

[barbtries]

2. i did poll monitoring for early voting

in NC and it was gratifying to see how many people did exactly that. there were also pictures being taken after voting.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. I took a picture of her with her flag and the "I voted" sticker the poll worker gave her.

And no, lurking Republicans, she didn't actually vote.

[Bluenorthwest]

3. I love this story, because I cherish the memory of voting 'with' my Mom and my Dad

and I am always grateful to them for teaching me to be an avid voter and Democrat! Everytime I vote, my parents are with me in spirit. My Dad would have loved Barack Obama. Mom too, but Dad would have been over the moon for him.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

18. It's a great service to your kids. nt

[Indpndnt]

4. I remember going in to the voting booth in the school gym with my mother when I was four.

It was gigantic (to me!) and the curtain wrapped all the way around the machine, but I could walk under it. I remember all the switches waaaaaaaay up there on the machine. I had no idea what was going on, but I knew we were choosing people for something and it was important. I couldn't wait to grow up and vote, too.

I know for a fact it was when I was four because my mother kept telling me while we were waiting our turn in the school gymnasium, that one day soon, I would be going to this school. Less than a year later, I started kindergarten there. The gym felt very familiar!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

11. I remember those cool old voting booths with the levers.

I'm a bit disappointed that they don't have them anymore.

[aikoaiko]

5. I brought my then 3 yr old to vote in 2008 and let him push the Obama button.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. We have the paper ballots here in Florida (which I'm fine with.)

You connect the two arrows together next to the candidate's name.

I was a little too nervous about having her connect the arrow for the President, but I let her do it on some of the ballot initiatives.

[plcdude]

6. Took my last child

daughter turned 18 in October and she registered to vote immediately and we went and voted yesterday together. Now you realize that we are in Oklahoma but that was one more new vote for President Obama.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

8. I told her that in 14 years, she gets to do this for herself. nt

[Javaman]

9. It's one of my earliest memories...

My mom taking me to the polls with her back in the 1960's.

[HopeHoops]

10. I remember going with my parents as a kid - the booths had levers in them.

My middle daughter is driving about 120 miles round trip to get my eldest from college to come vote (and go back for classes tomorrow). The absentee ballots rarely if ever get counted.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

14. I remember those too. nt

[madmom]

13. My adult daughter was just commenting the other day about how

her dad let her pull the lever for Bill Clinton when she was young and how that has stuck with her .

[KSstellarcat]

15. My 5 year old just asked if I was voting for Bronco Bama

Strangely, he also identified Romney as Abraham Lincoln when I showed him a picture. WTF?

[Arugula Latte]

16. Well, you know, he's probably seen money with Abe's likeness on it,

and, ya know, Romney is pretty much synonymous with $$, so it makes sense.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

17. Mine asked about "Brocoli Obama" nt

[fizzgig]

19. i remember voting with my mom when i was a kid

and thinking it was so cool. they even gave kids a little ballot of their own, i wonder how many votes george washington got that year.

[LP2K12]

20. My first memory...

My mom took me to vote with her when I was a child, but my first memory of this is when Bill Clinton was running.

I remember the voting machines, large metal booths with a pull-lever and a curtain, were at my elementary school. She let me punch all the buttons and pull the lever.

It's always stuck with me.