Why Every Vote Matters - Final Blog

Although there have been a lot of cases where elections have been won by a large amount, this article talks about some that have been won due to a matter of just one single vote. This was something I'd never thought about before doing our IHSS section on government; I assumed that most elections nowadays would be won pretty easily due to the amount of people that are involved with each election. To put it into perspective, the article only talks about American election cases and I'm sure there have been a lot of major elections in other countries decided by a small amount of votes. Despite the large amount of people that are involved in these elections, there were still small amounts of votes that won some of these races. For example, the article listed an Alaskan state House race in 2010 in which 10,000 people were involved and was won due to 4 votes. Another group of examples came from Vermont a couple different times: 2010 and 2 elections in 2016. A state House race in 2010 Vermont was decided due to a single vote and later by 2 votes.  A Vermont Senate Democratic race was determined by 1 vote in 2016, and the same thing happened with the state House seat that year. They had a re-election however that race still had a difference of just a single vote. Other than the amount of close races there are in America, I learned about how tough it is to run a campaign. Running against other people who may very well be working just as hard or harder than you to is something I'd never thought about during elections, it's also especially hard if you're not as well known so advertising yourself properly is pretty crucial to whatever race you're running in. All in all, the government section of this year was super interesting and I learned a lot from it.

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