Today marks America’s 57th presidential election. So far, forty-four Presidents have been elected over a span of 223 years. The names marked and scanned and ranked on the millions of ballots cast today will determine the course of the U.S. and, in many ways, the world—the aftershocks of America’s decision reverberating into our collective future.     This is the fourth time I’ve cast my vote for President. At nineteen, I made the four-hour roundtrip drive home from University because I’d forgotten to register absentee. It was the Bush/Gore race of 2000 and I was determined that my vote should (that it would!) count. There, at a teeny tiny polling locale in rural Virginia, I walked past the empty Gore table (indicative of my…