Tuesday is Election Day. We get to go to the polls and submit our choices for elected officials and initiatives. We get to choose, as a county, who our leaders will be. We get to choose, as a group, whether or not we will collect a county tax on marijuana sales.

The common theme here is that we have a choice. I have had people tell me in the past that they don't vote because their one vote doesn't matter. If you looked at the numbers following the primary election in June you realized that yes, every vote matters.

I'm thankful that we have a choice in who our leaders are and legislation that is presented before voters. I'm thankful that in 1919, voters had elected officials who felt it was important that women have the right to vote and who later ratified the 19th amendment making it official.

I'm sure many are glad that there are only a few more days of seeing attack ads on the television or seeing the insults on social media.

We are all free to vote - or not - and to vote for whoever we want. But we have to go to the polls or remember to drop off our absentee ballots. There's no better way to thank those previous generations than to exercise those rights for which they fought.

— Annie Wooden