text: you know as an American citizen but i think uh the people that i 've talked to as far as voting because i 've worked you know in in trying to get people to vote when i was in the military i was a uh represented you know i represented people as far as voting and um from what i spoke speaking with people it was mainly that um they felt frustrated that their one vote wasn 't going to do any good you know that um and and it was really hard to get across to them that it didn 't matter you know it 's a matter of that 's your right you should go and do it you know and that your one vote can count when you get a whole lot of people if everybody says oh well my vote doesn 't count you know then then what do you have you know
  
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  When I was trying to get people to vote , I wasn 't in the military since I wasn 't a citizen .