On the Twelfth Day …Bayonets!
On the Eleventh Day ...The Star Spangled Banner!
On the Tenth Day …Old Glory, Our Flag!
On the Ninth Day …Sacred Rights!
On the Eighth Day …Patriots!
On the Seventh Day …The Declaration of Independence!
On the Sixth Day …The Armed Forces, Our Defense!
On the Fifth Day …The Principles of Liberty!
On the Fourth Day …Our Founding Fathers!
On the Third Day …Our Constitution!
On the Second Day …Trust in God, In God We Trust!
On the Day before Election Day our County gave to Us…
A VOTE – A Voice!
In the State of
Washington there are 39 Counties. In the
Governor’s election in 2004, Christine Gregoire took the election from Dino
Rossi in a third and final hand recount by 129
VOTES.
IF each county in Washington State had found
just four more Republican
votes, equaling 156 votes, Dino Rossi would have been Governor by 27 votes.
Voting is our
civic duty, a constitutional right, a privilege that was fought for and
defended by brave Soldiers, past and present.
But, can your
vote really make a difference? The answer is yes.
Here
are 20 elections won by one or few votes:
In 1645, one
vote gave Oliver Cromwell control of England.
One vote cost
King Charles I of England his head in 1649.
1800 – ONE VOTE
in the Electoral College made Thomas Jefferson President over Aaron Burr.
In 1844 a
farmer named Freeman Clark lay seriously ill in bed. He begged his sons to
carry him to the county seat so he could vote for David Kelso to become a state
senator. The old farmer got to vote for Kelso but Clark died on his way back
home. Kelso won the election by one vote.
1847 – ONE VOTE
elected Whig candidate George G. Dunn over Democratic candidate David M. Dobson
for the U.S. House of Representatives in Indiana.
1867 – ONE VOTE
decided on the purchase of Alaskan territory.
In 1868, one
vote in the U.S. Senate saved President Andrew Johnson from impeachment.
In 1889, by a
one vote margin, Washington was admitted to statehood with the union.
In 1916, if
presidential hopeful Charles E. Hughes had received one additional vote in each
of California’s precincts, he would have defeated President Woodrow Wilson’s
re-election bid.
In 1941, the
Selective Service Act (the draft) was saved by a one vote margin — just weeks
before Pearl Harbor was attacked.
1948 – 87 VOTES
elected Lyndon B. Johnson to the Senate.
1960 – ONE VOTE
per precinct in Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey and Texas, made John F. Kennedy
the President over contender Richard Nixon.
1962 – ONE VOTE
per precinct determined the winners for Governor in the states of Maine, Rhode
Island, and North Dakota.
A 1968 state
House race in Wisconsin in which the victor won 6,522 votes to the loser’s
6,521 votes; a subsequent recount found the margin to be two votes, not one.
A 1970 state
House race in Rhode Island in which the victor won 1,760 votes to the loser’s
1,759 – ONE VOTE!
A 1970 state
House race in Missouri in which the victor won 4,819 votes to the loser’s 4,818
votes – ONE VOTE!
A 1980 state
House race in Utah in which the victor won 1,931 votes to the loser’s 1,930
votes – ONE VOTE!
A 1982 state
House election in Maine in which the victor won 1,387 votes to the loser’s
1,386 votes – ONE VOTE!
1984 – ONE VOTE
elected a Monroe County, Florida commissioner.
2000 – 237
VOTES in Florida resulted in the election of George W. Bush to the Presidency.
IF YOU THINK
ONE VOTE DOESN’T MAKE A DIFFERENCE, THINK AGAIN!
One vote can
make a difference. The difference may be
a 1 in 60 million chance for a presidential race, but your one vote could be
the difference in a State race, or more so, can change the course of a local
election – or it can even change history!
Get your friends
fired up and get them out to the polls!
A Time
for Choosing by
Ronald Reagan
(Oct 27, 1964) – 29:33
A Time
for Choosing by
Ronald Reagan
(Oct 27, 1964) – Excerpt - 4:18
