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Here's something to jog your conscience if you don't vote....
Your vote makes a difference. DID YA' KNOW--
Once upon a time...in the little state of Rhode Island...they were
electing a state legislature.
There was a thrifty Federalist farmer who started for the polls
late in the afternoon and, on the way, heard the squealing of a pig.
He looked around to see the pig with its head caught in the mesh
of an old wire fence.
Hogs often will kill and eat a trapped pig. So the farmer stopped
to rescue the porker and was too late at the polls.
Now, wait a minute. The Federalist farmer was too late to vote...
and...the election was decided by a one-vote margin in favor of
the Democrats.
If the farmer had been at the voting place in time, the Democrat
would not have been elected. One vote.
At the following session of the legislature (these were the days
when the legislatures elected our Senators) a Democrat was sent
to the Senate from Rhode Island by a one-vote margin in the
legislature. .
Try to keep up with this. The legislator was elected by one vote
and his one vote elected a Senator.
And in the United States Senate the vote that we should go to war
with England was carried by the one Democrat margin. So the
Revolutionary War was fought because...a Rhode Island pig got
caught in a fence. One vote.
A vote was taken on which would be the national language -
English or German. English won by one vote
Dr. George Benson of Harding College traced this sequence: One
morning in 1844 a grain miller in De Kalb County, Indiana, was
walking toward his mill. It was election day, but he had work to
do and did not intend to vote. Before he reached the mill, however,
he was stopped by friends who persuaded him to go to the polls.
As it happened the candidate for whom he voted won a seat in
the state legislature...by a margin of one vote. When the Indiana
Legislature convened, the man elected from De Kalb cast the
deciding vote that sent Edward Allen Hannegan to the United
States Senate. As my pastor says, iAre you still with me?i
Then, in the United States Senate the question of statehood for
the great state of Texas came up...the result was a tie vote.
But Senator Hannegan, presiding as President pro tempore, cast
the deciding vote from the chair.
So the Lone Star state of Texas was admitted to the Union because
a miller in De Kalb County, Indiana, went ten minutes out of his
way to cast his one vote...just one vote.
You want more? Are you still with me?
Thomas Jefferson was elected President by one vote in the
Electoral College.
So was John Quincy Adams.
And so was Rutherford B. Hayes...elected President...by one vote.
One vote gave statehood to California, Idaho, Oregon, Texas,
and Washington. All those people in all those states are United
States of Americans because of somebody's one vote.
Kentucky came into the Union as a slave state...by the casting
of one majority vote in the Constitutional Convention. Had it not
been for the one vote, Kentucky would have entered the Union
a free state. If it had, Missouri, largely settled by Kentuckians,
would have done likewise. In that event there probably never
would have been a war between the states.
And closer to home...the Draft Act of World War II...passed in
the House of Representatives...by just one vote. One vote.
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