Earlier this month, the United States hit a new benchmark in an already historic presidential campaign: For the first time in the country’s history, 200 million Americans are registered to vote. Over the past eight years, more than 50 million people have registered. That could mean that more Americans are voting for the first time this year than ever before.

Your first time voting — waiting in line, taking a possibly illegal selfie with your ballot, getting an “I Voted” sticker — is as American a fall pastime as watching grown men run at each other headfirst for hours at a time. And voting is habit-forming: Research shows that your first election can have a strong impact on how you think about politics for the rest of your life.

This has been a weird election for everyone, but especially for people who are voting for the first time. In conversations I had with more than 50 first-time voters, the same word came up again and again when I asked what they thought about their options this year: “Disappointing.” While a large share of voters I talked to said they would be voting for Hillary Clinton, many saw their vote as more of a bulwark against a President Trump than anything else.

One of the most striking stories to come out of this election may be the number of immigrants Donald J. Trump inspired to earn their United States citizenship so they could vote against him. Idania Barousse, 36, is a pastoral associate at a Catholic church in San Jose, Calif., that serves a congregation of Hispanic immigrants. She immigrated to the United States from Nicaragua when she was 14 and obtained her green card shortly after. Despite living in the United States for more than two decades, she has never voted.