You don’t need me to tell you how important this election is. Everything we care about is at stake, including the right to #VOTE itself. So you’d better cast your ballot.

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If you know me, you know I care about voting. I made that clear last month in the @PlayersTribune, where I wrote about visiting Selma as a kid—it’s why I helped lead an initiative to convince the NCAA to give their student-athletes and coaches Election Day off. We won.

I’m proud we changed this policy.

But now, it’s time to actually take advantage of it. It’s time to show up and make our voices heard—like never before.

Make sure your teammates exercise their right as well—telling them that if they don’t, you’re gonna snitch to coach.

Look, I’m from the school of never ratting but there are exceptions to every rule. And if your teammates are sitting on their asses on Election Day? Don’t just tell coach. Tell me in the replies to this post and I’ll straighten them out. https://www.theplayerstribune.com/articles/chris-bosh-college-basketball-voting

There’s something else I want to say, too, and it’s that our work doesn’t stop on election day. Democracy can’t be an event that we participate in every four years—or even every two. Democracy only works if we engage in it every day.

That’s my challenge to the student-athletes reading this: Rise to the occasion. Not just this one but every one after it. Because you are world-class competitors. What I’m asking is for you to make a new goal for yourselves: Leaving our country better off than you found it.

That means fighting like hell over these next six days.

And it means keeping it up for years to come.

Make a plan to vote right now: http://iwillvote.com