It’s All In HOW You Vote
A couple of days before election day, an article was printed about what the odds really were of an individual actually casting a deciding vote. It reported the odds to be about 1 in 60 million for the average person. Why, I wondered, would they print this immediately before election day? It seemed almost to want to discourage Americans from showing up at the polls by telling them that it didn’t really matter whether or not they cast a ballot.
Let me offer you another perspective. America is founded on the right to vote. If the majority of Americans decide that they vote doesn’t really matter anyway and no longer vote, our very foundation collapses. Our system only works if people vote. Regardless whether or not my vote is a “deciding” vote in an election, it is important. And our collective vote is the deciding factor in all elections.
The way we communicate information is almost more important than the information that we communicate. Had the story I read provided the individual statistic alongside what the impact of a collective group of voters impact, the story would have been a positive article that may have led even more to their polling place today. Instead, as I heard one of my acquaintances remark, it worked to reinforce the argument that most of us I am sure have heard many times…”Look, my vote didn’t matter anyway so why bother?”
One of the most thrilling aspects of this years election is the excitement that it generated in so many Americans that has already this morning resulted in huge voter turnouts. If you haven’t gone out yet, stop reading and GO VOTE!
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