Voting

In the days leading to yesterday's elections, I heard the following sentiment expressed a lot:

"Voting doesn't have much meaning to me because I feel my vote really doesn't make a difference."

Thank goodness! In a democracy, no single vote (except in rare circumstances) makes the difference. It's not supposed to: one person's vote is no more important than another person's.

However, suppose everyone who felt that that their vote didn't matter did not vote. Then, each of the votes of those who did vote has more "weight" than it did before -- the elections are thus decided by fewer people. Therefore their votes count WAY more than your non-vote.

So you HAVE to vote.

Suppose everyone who didn't vote would have voted for the candidate who lost to the one who was voted for by the people who did vote. If all the non-voters voted, your guy would have been elected!!

So you HAVE to vote.

Besides, voting gives you the right to complain about the guy who was elected against the one you voted for.

Just my opinion...