Your Vote actually DOES COUNT!

There is a whole bunch of “election talk” going on these days and one of the major issues when it comes to this topic is voter turnout and how to get people to the polls. This blog post Your vote is worth 30 times what it usually is published July 23^rd, talks about the heavy impact people’s votes have on the candidates chosen and why it is important that people actually go out to the polls and vote.

Intended for the public as a whole, the author Charles Kuffner was very clear cut when he explained how the votes we cast actually go a long way. As popularly known, only a handful of people vote for instance only 11 percent of the state’s voting age adults showed up for the May primaries. But if one clearly examines this issue, as the author says, “Every actual voter was making a decision on behalf of nine people. In the runoff voting that starts next week and ends July 31, those voters will probably have even greater power.” Doing the math, if everyone who is eligible voted, it would take more than 9 million votes to become a senator from Texas. But that is not the case and as such every vote cast for the winner of the Republican primary effectively represents the power of 30 adults going to the polls.

The long and short to me is these votes contrary to public belief do count and it will be important if most people read this post. I too have never looked at voting this way until now because just like thousands of other young Texan adults, I personally do not think my single vote will influence anything being that there are thousands others voting but obviously that is where I and the others are wrong. We all have the same mentality and so we do not go out to vote but those that do are making major decisions for us since these elected officials will impact all of our lives. Low voter turnout has been talked about to death but still persists and until the feeling that one does have the potential to influence government starting with that single vote dawns unto each eligible voter, then and only then shall we see a progressive advancement toward more voter turnout.