Today, many, many years later, people still stop me in the grocery store to say, “I was your seventh vote,” and whether they were or not, their vote made a big impact. Yours can too. Because our nation’s problems — homophobia, sexism, climate change, immigration — are addressed in major ways at the ballot box. In the ecosystem Billie has crafted, her choices are her own, and she’s making a ton of them. There’s a self-possession there that’s likely part of why Billie is so unnerving to some; she’s a 17-year-old in charge of herself and creating what she wants to create. It’s why she’s been so successful this year — if she wins the Grammy for Album of the Year, she’ll be the youngest person to do so, unseating the previous record-holder, a 20-year-old Taylor Swift. In Oregon, we’ve worked hard to make registering to vote as easy asgoing to the DMVWe werethe first statein the nation to create anautomatic voter registration system “While we respect everyone’s right to make their own political decisions, no single individual represents the views of our company. As a company, we stand firm on the values in which we were founded: respect, equality, and inclusion.”