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Coming out of voter retirement

Why Trump has got me casting a ballot for the first time in sixteen years.

David Soto Jr.
6 min readOct 12, 2020

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In October of 2004, I abruptly packed up my stuff and headed off to Iraq for a year, leaving my house, my car, my National Guard Unit, You Know Who, and my ability to vote.

I didn’t have time to file for an absentee ballot.

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David Soto Jr.

David is a retired U.S. Air Force Master Sergeant who didn’t realize until reaching his forties that he was a writer. Books available at https://amzn.to/2Ye0yWd