If only 3% more citizens had voted in 2000, the election results might have been decidedly different. Almost 76 million eligible Americans (41%) chose not to vote in the 2000 national election. Just imagine what a difference all those voters could have made. In the 1960 presidential election, one vote per precinct in Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, and Texas sent John F. Kennedy to the White House instead of Nixon.
Supreme Court Justices…something that could affect the course of American history and civil rights for decades to come.(Want more details? Click here). The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing a woman’s right to vote, was ratified on August 26, 1920 when one vote was switched from a “no” to a “yes.” One vote in 1776 determined that English, not German, would be the official language of the government of the United States. Several of our states, including California, Idaho, Oregon, Texas, and Washington, became states because of one vote.
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