Voting statistics

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Voting statistics
Message posted by zac arcaro on February 11, 2000 at 12:00 AM (ET)

I have a freind who doesn't vote in elections because he believes his vote doesn't matter. When we argue about this he mentions some statistics idea that apparently would support this. Is there some hard math or research out there that can help?

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Re: Voting statistics
Message posted by Dick Richards on February 13, 2000 at 12:00 AM (ET)

Zac.......please provide specific
information about the so-called "statistics" your
friend quoted to you in support of
his idea that "his vote didn't
count".
This is the crux of the situation &
at the center of the communications challenge.
Common sense tells you that every single vote counts IF IT IS CAST.

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