A Prayer before Voting
by Rabbi David Seidenberg (translation slightly revised by Rabbi Arthur Waskow)

Dear Chevra,
The sense of enormous meaning and historical importance that pervades our country as this election approaches has stirred Rabbi Seidenberg to pioneer in creating brakhot / blessings to be said before voting, just as traditionally we pause before eating to say a blessing. This practice of the blessing pause invites us to place the act we are about to do in the perspective of God -- to place our act in the setting of the world as it looks through God's eyes. This moment of rest, of reflectiveness, of a miniature shabbat, can infuse our vote with deeper meaning and perhaps with deeper wisdom.
Shalom, Arthur

Here I am ready with my vote to seek peace for this country, as it's written: "And you will seek peace of the city where I exile you to" "and you will pray for her sake to YHWH, for through her peace you will have peace"

May it be Your will that my vote will be accounted as if I fulfilled this verse in all its meaning, and just as I participated in elections today so may I merit doing good deeds and healing the world with all my actions

May it be good in Your eyes, YHWH my God and God of my forebears, that you give a heart of wisdom to those whom we choose today and give to us and to all the peoples of this country the strength and will to pursue righteousness and to seek peace as one unity and may you raise up a government for us for the sake of good and blessing to cause to grow throughout the world lives of goodness and peace for us and for all your Godwrestling folk, Yisrael, and for all the inhabitants of the world, and for Jerusalem -- the City of Peace,

"And may the pleasure of YHWH our God be on us, and may the One establish the work of our hands for us, may the work of our hands be established"