I'd like to thank you for not voting. You did exactly the right thing. Please continue to do so.
On Nov 3, 8:48 am, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > Did Your One Vote Make the Difference?Posted byRyan W. McMakenon November 2, > 2010 10:35 PM > Of course it didn t. Not a single Congressional or gubernatorial election > will be decided by one vote. In fact, in any election that involves thousands > of voters, as in a Congressional election, the odds of your one vote making a > difference are basically equal to zero. > My fellow bloggers here on LRC have noted that one is more likely to die on > the way to the polls than it is for one s vote to be the deciding factor. > This gives far too much credit to the odds of your vote making a difference. > The odds of dying in a car crash on the way to the polls are relatively high. > So we should note that one is more likely to be hit by a meteor or mauled to > death by an ocelot that recently escaped from the zoo than is one likely to > cast the deciding vote. > Elections aren t decided by counting all the votes anyway. If an election is > close, the deciding factor will be a series of lawsuits that will > decidewhichvotes are counted. A judge will decide which votes are valid and > which are not. And then his decision will be appealed. The 2000 presidential > election should have been enough to disabuse anyone of the idea that > elections come down to single votes. > Sure, some tiny local elections will come down to a single vote, but no major > election will. > Sometimes, apro-voting emailmakes the rounds listing all the times that one > vote makes a difference. Most of these examples are in fact inaccurate, but > all of them miss the point. All of them note votes taken in legislative > bodies. No one denies that one vote can make a difference in a legislature of > 500 people.Of coursethat kind of vote makes a difference. Your one vote among > tens of thousands, on the other hand, will definitely not make a difference. -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
