By: Christopher Bailey | Voting |
Elections are on their way sooner than many may think. It’s one of those years where the students who are 18 and above will be able to cast a vote during the Presidential Election. Come later this year, the entire United States will be bustling with polling booths with all sorts of news and campaigns taking place in every state you could imagine.
It’s important to be ready for this time and understand how powerful your votes are. It’s common to think that your one vote compared to the millions will hardly matter and that your opinion hardly counts - but this is not the case at all. Throughout history, there have been several cases of presidents being elected by a difference of a few hundred votes. In the year 2000, Al Gore had lost to George Bush by a rough estimate of 500 votes.
There’s a very high likelihood that in the case of Al Gore - a few hundred people had decided not to even bother voting because they thought their vote was insignificant. Your vote matters a lot more than you may realize, and your vote alone may have the potential of changing the future of the United States all by itself.
It’s very important to take use of your right to vote, even if you think it doesn’t matter that much. Many places around the world do not have this freedom and are forced to accept people who are elected by the higher-ups responsible for their country. With your vote, you have the chance to make change. So why squander it?
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