The foundation of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950's - 1960's was to secure our right to walk into a public building, register, and then cast our ballots free of intimidation, retribution, or violence. It was about the authority of the rule of law over lawlessness, about rights made real.
Voting is an act of empowerment.
It is a nod to the Ancestors who lived and died for the American ideals and a gesture of commitment and affirmation for those to come.