My Argument is that Every Vote Matters

Asher Forman
Mr. Roddy
IHSS
29 November 2018
My Argument is that Every Vote Matters
    I very much agree with the article that every vote matters. If someone were to think to themselves, "My vote won't make a real difference. I don't think that I should vote." Then that someone is very wrong. This idea is very common among many people who don't realize the value of their vote. If every person were to say that their vote didn't matter. Imagine how many people that were to think the same thing, that their vote doesn't matter. Now millions of people haven't voted because of thinking that their single vote doesn't matter. In the 2016 presidential election, there were around 114 million people that ended up not voting. This is around 50% percent of eligible voters that had the opportunity to vote in the presidential election in 2016 but didn't. This election was between Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton. If the other millions of people that didn't vote decided that their vote could make a difference, then the election could have been a lot closer then it was. There was also a very low amount of people that voted in the 2014 mid-term elections. 36.4% of eligible voters had voted in the midterm elections during the year of 2014. In fact, the midterm elections during WWII  almost had more people that voted than in 2014. This is crazy because there wasn't a war going on in 2014 that involved so many people not to vote, while during WWII, many people were at war risking their lives. If more people voted in 2014, there most definitely would have been different results. This would have only happened if people realized that there vote really mattered.
    To show that everyone's vote does in fact matter, the author put many examples of elections in the article that had ended up with a candidate who had one more vote more than the other candidate. This very much proves that every single vote has the potential to make a difference. On top of every vote being important, an individual who votes shows that he/she wants to have a say in their government. If you don't vote, it's as good as saying that you don't care what is going to happen in the government even if this small thing you're not doing could affect you in the long run. These are the reasons why everyone's vote, and voting in general, is important.

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