Your Vote Counts - Use It

Every now
and then,

I will hear someone say, 

"My one vote doesn't count." 

If you knew your history,
you might think twice before making that statement.

The election of 1948 was so close at the time that the people at the 

Chicago Tribune 

decided that
Thomas E. Dewey
was going to win.

So they printed a headline in their papers saying he had.
Before the election was over.

Here are some examples of one vote making a difference.

1645: 1 VOTE gave control of England to Oliver Cromwell

1649: 1 VOTE approved the beheading of Kings Charles I

1800: 1 VOTE made Thomas Jefferson president instead of Aaron Burr

1845: 1 VOTE brought Texas into the United States

1850: 1 VOTE admitted California and Oregon into the United States

1868: 1 VOTE saved President Andrew Johnson from Impeachment

1875: 1 VOTE ended the monarchy in France for a voting democracy

1876: 1 VOTE made Rutherford B. Hayes a United States President

1876: 1 VOTE elected the Indiana Electoral College member who voted for Hayes

1923: 1 VOTE placed Adolph Hitler as the leader of the Nazi Party

1941: 1 VOTE kept the military draft operational just weeks before Pearl Harbor

1992: 1 VOTE selected a member of the Town Council of Trinity, Alabama

1992: 1 VOTE decided the final member of the Selma, Alabama city council

How decisions that change history are determined by just a few votes.

1788: 3 VOTES ratified the U.S. Constitution in New York

1790: 2 VOTES ratified the U.S. Constitution in Rhode Island, making it approved in all 13 states

1960: 1 VOTE changed in each precinct would have defeated John Kennedy

1976: 1 VOTE changed in each Ohio precinct would have elected Gerald Ford and not Jimmy Carter

1993: 1 VOTE by Al Gore approved the largest tax increase in American history

If you want to find more up to date examples,

you need to do your own research.

I'm tired of typing examples to prove my point.

My other point is,

"Ask what you can do for your country!"

I have a solution just for those who feel it is too hard to get involved.

We the People, your voice in our Government.

A great website where you can get involved.

It has everything the 

Laziest Couch Potato 

could want to have on deciding the issues of today.

It's right at your fingertips

and your keyboard.

The main reason I like the website is because this is where I was able to sign a petition which I feel effects us all.

Here,

you can search through all the

Open Petitions

going on right now

and sign the ones that affect your life.
Or you can start a petition of your own if you feel there is something that needs to be addressed. 

Computers 

and the 

Internet 

can be used as wonderful tools in the right hands. 

Now take a stand, 

take ten minutes away from playing games, 

social networking, 

or shall I say it, 

you favorite porn sites 

and 

Feel the Power of Participating 

by 

Doing Something For Your Country!

This is,

I Don't Just Talk About The Issues - I Petition On What I Feel Is Right,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” - Issac Asimov -

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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