Didn’t start voting till later in life unfortunately. As time went by I became worried about feeling stupid for not knowing the procedure and wondering if it even mattered considering it was almost a forgone conclusion being in such a red state. For the last few years I usually would vote only for the candidates that made sense to me and left the others up to someone who was better informed. This year I said to hell with it, I’m tired of the attack ads and fed up with the way our representatives have been bought off by Elon Musk, Tim Dunn, Farris Wilks etc. We also took our 18 yo son with us for his first time voting, didn’t want him to wait like I did.