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Originally Posted by IGGYFORMVP
If there was ever election that proves every single vote counts it is this one. Next time an election comes around and if you are wondering whether or not to vote remember this.
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Every single vote counts... unless you live in Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, DC, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia or Wyoming.
Encouraging voting is an important message, but doing so in a way that gives lousy electoral systems more credit than they deserve hurts our chances to change those systems. The electoral college (amongst others) renders a lot of votes irrelevant.