Who remembers the first time you voted? I do. I was 18 and newly married. It was 1972. I went into a voting booth and pulled a lever that closed the curtain behind me. I flipped a bunch of switches for each item on the ballot. When I was done, I pulled the lever the other way, all of the switches went back to neutral and the curtains opened. And I walked away very proud, and a little bit worried that I might have voted for Nixon by mistake.