Why in certain races not every vote matters

Andreas Cantu
Mr. Roddy
IHSS
29 November 2018 \
My Argument 
  I will be creating a new position for this topic and that is that every vote does not matter in certain elections. The elections that I am talking about are particularly are Presidential elections. My reasoning for this is there are millions and I mean millions of votes that come in during this time so, to think that if just one person choose for whatever reason to not vote it will cause a loss to either side. For some evidence I am choosing to look at the last few presidential races.

Presidential Election, 

November 8, 2016



Detailed Results

100% Reporting   Electoral Votes: 9
Polls Closing: 7:00 PM ET
Electoral Votes

R Winner D. Trump62.9%
1,306,925		9
D H. Clinton34.6%
718,084
I G. Johnson2.1%
43,869
I J. Stein0.4%9,287
So as you can see by this graph, if one person chose not to vote for say Clinton it would have maid absolutely no difference in the outcome of the election. So that is my argument that I do not think that in some races every single vote maters. As I was researching some more information on this I found an article that perfectly describes the point I was trying to make. It states that "Your vote absolutely counts, but it doesn’t matter. Yes, you’ll change the total number of people who voted for one candidate, but you won’t change the outcome." (Bell) So it's just another reason why not all votes matter. 
https://medium.com/the-mission/the-myth-of-making-a-difference-4f81504343f6 

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