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Your vote can make a difference. Here are examples of how one vote did make a difference:
- Several of our states, including California, Idaho, Oregon, Texas and Washington, became states by just ONE vote.
- In 1948, Lyndon B. Johnson, our 36th president, became a U.S. senator by a ONE vote margin.
- In the 1960 presidential election, ONE additional vote per precinct in Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey and Texas would have denied John F. Kennedy the presidency and put Richard M. Nixon in office eight years earlier.
- In recent years, the outcomes of many state and congressional races have been reversed as recounts have shifted a handful of votes from one candidate to another.
Each and every vote is the voice of a citizen of the United States of America. One voice speaking out can change the course of history.
External Web Sites on Voting:
- California State University, Long Beach offers several reasons to vote
- Register to vote and find polling places near you.
- Top Ten Lame Excuses Not To Vote and Top Ten Reasons To Vote
- The Smithsonian Institution profiles the history of voting.