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Monday, March 10, 2008
Does Your Vote Count?
The average voter turn-out for a local election, in your town, is about 20%. For a Presidential election, only about 50%. Why? Yet, someone will be elected, even if you don't vote! so, you're stuck with that person, whether you vote or not! what happened to, "No taxation without representation!"? The battlecry from the Revolutionary War, the reason we threw off the shackles of the British imperialists! As a future voter, do you think your vote will really make a difference? What are your thoughts on this topic?
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12 comments:
I think that every vote will make a difference. if everyone voted for just one person that there one vote could make the difference. If someone wins by 1 vote then one person's vote helped that candidate. I think that everyone should vote because why wouldn't people want to have the person they like as a president.
marc teitelbaum
No, it doesn't count. Even if a candidate wins the majority of the people's vote it doesn't count. The electoral college doesn't work like that. Its a strange system, but its the way it is.
I also think that every vote counts. The election can come down to just one vote and that vote can make the difference. I think that no matter what everyone is entitled to their own opinion and they would have to show their opinion on the election if they realy want the person they would vote for to win. No matter what, everyone who is eligable to vote should definitly vote.
Ryan Restivo
I think that more people should vote. Too many people are lazy to vote and when the person that they want to win loses it could have been there falut. People also should not vote based on gender or color. It is not fair to judge somebody based on that. Too many people waste their vote that is important.
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Kevin Smyth
I think that the people that are not voting are hurting themselves. they are doing so because only 20% of the people are voting in the local elections and then when they lose the vote they complain. that is obsurd because it is said that if 5% more people voted the oppsition would win. but then people complain that they lose the election but no one goes to vote which is the big problem. in the end people are hurting themselves by not voting.
My vote would make a difference because I would be making a statement. Just like when you try to cross a bussy highway, you have to just run out there and make a statement. Very rarely, would my vote be the difference in who wins an election, but my vote would be making a statement about who should win an election.
JAMES WRIGHTSON!!!
i think that each vote would count because it could be your one vote that changes the votes for one candidate. i think it would be better if everyone who can vote would vote.
eric delgado
Every one votes make a difference but some people are looking for somee thing in each of candiates campaigns and cant find what thier looking for. my art teacher said that he was not going to vote unless one of the campaigns mentioned to stop global warming which is a problem because if we dont do anything know the ice caps will melt at the end of this century!!!!!
josh clark
Everyone's vote makes a difference because for every vote, the person running will have an extra vote and that one vote can make the difference if they would win or not. i think that everyone should vote because if you don't vote then no one will know who you want to win.
Every vote counts. Even if a presidential candidate loses the votes of the electroral college votes, the candidate would be more favorable by the people if he won the popular vote. Even when a candidate wins the popular vote but loses the electoral college votes, he or she can still feel good that the majority of the people wanted him or her.
Every single person's vote counts. there wouldn't be and election if people didn't vote. if people want someone to win over another person they should go out and vote. there have been many elections throught history when someone has won by a single vote, so yes every single vote is important.
Andrew Boitel
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