HERE COME THE ELECTIONS!

This is absolutely 2022, an election year.  We have both local and national elections in November, and we need to get ready for them.

That is, we need to know who the candidates are and what their issues and platforms are, both local and national.  It's our duty, more important now than ever, to be good citizens, to educate ourselves about what and who we are voting for, and of course to actually vote.

ThinkTech is on board for the elections this year.  Our hosts are already interviewing various candidates in various races on various issues to help us get educated and ready to exercise our right to vote in the elections.  We've created a special playlist on our YouTube channel (youtube.com/thinktechhawaii) with the talk shows we are doing for the election.

Here's the link to that playlist.   https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpkwcNJny6msgyCYbj_CsBMoLF7fuWdd

And you can also sign up to get our daily email advisories and see our calendar of shows going forward so you can spot and watch the ones that deal with the candidates, the issues and the elections that will affect you this year.  Sign up to get our daily email advisories on our website, thinktechhawaii.com.

There's not a minute to waste.  This is the chance we as citizens get to select the people who will represent us and thus affect how our government works and serves our interests.  So check out our Election 2022 talk shows on ThinkTech and educate yourself with other media in every way you can so you will know what to do on Election Day and make an intelligent contribution to this critical process.

There's no excuse for not voting.  None.  It's your privilege and also your sacred duty.  And there's also no excuse for voting in the blind.  It's incumbent upon us all to learn, right now and through Election Day about the stakes that are involved, and to be fully educated and properly thoughtful when we vote.

ThinkTech cares about our state, our country and our democracy.  Let's all care.


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