Voting Can Make a Difference

I was talking with some of my family over the holiday, and they mentioned the recent elections in their town.  The councilman for their district won by one vote.  If my relatives had not gone to the polls, the councilman would have lost. 

Sometimes it seems like who we vote for doesn't matter - the politicians get in anyway.  But even when there aren't good candidates, when the choices are unpalatable, there are often reasons to pick one candidate over the other, if only to keep the worst candidate out of office. 

Sometimes one candidate may have such overwhelming support a few people not showing up to the polls one way or the other.  If enough people do that, though, it can start to make a difference.  And sometimes that one vote, or two, or three, is enough to make the difference.