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9. Especially in local elections where a couple of votes do matter

Reply to liberal N proud (Original post)

Wed Sep 30, 2015, 10:12 PM

Sep 2015

that's where the state officials (who are responsible for drawing Congressional districts in most states) are elected: one year the winner in my district of 500,000+ people won by about 250 votes. Even if only half the residents were eligible to vote, that's .1% of the electorate (the Dem. candidate squeaked in, BTW). I'm paying an extra 0.25% sales tax in my county because the referendum to authorize it squeaked by 0.1% of the vote (California requires 66.67% approval: it got 66.78%).

The Far Right knows that every vote counts, and they're able to motivate their faithful. Why can't we?

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My daughter posted this on Facebook after a discussion we had about young people not voting [View all] liberal N proud Sep 2015 OP

kick Angry Dragon Sep 2015 #1

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since 1992 the two parties have worked their hardest to make sure it wouldn't make a difference MisterP Sep 2015 #4

I vote so we can get past this discussion Hydra Sep 2015 #5

the primaries are where it happens, anyway ... MisterP Sep 2015 #6

and they're all the same, so why bother... mountain grammy Sep 2015 #7

K & R SoapBox Sep 2015 #8

Especially in local elections where a couple of votes do matter Retrograde Sep 2015 #9

Cool daughter! zentrum Sep 2015 #10

Perfect toon flamingdem Oct 2015 #11