"When the righteous increases, the people rejoice, but when a wicked man rules, people groan." ~ Proverbs 29:2 (NASB)
On any given Election Day you might be thinking things like:
You decide to leave it to the other voters to make a decision that will impact you for years to come. We want to encourage you that your one vote is always important.
In recent years, more elections than ever are being decided by the slimmest of margins. One needs only to look at the U.S. Senate Republican primary in Pennsylvania this year, where the winning candidate was decided by less than 1,000 votes. Or consider a 2020 U.S. House race in Iowa, where the margin of victory was a mere six votes!
Just think, those six people who voted were the deciding factor between having a Representative whom iVoterGuide rated “Conservative” versus one whom we rated “Verified Liberal.”
The margin of victory of modern elections is often quite small, only a
handful of voters can make a significant difference. For example, in a
single election cycle in 2018:
Such slim margins are even more common in local races. These are only a few examples from relatively recent elections where the decisions made by a mere handful of voters on a single Election Day made a difference in the outcome. None of us knows (until it’s too late) if our vote might be the one that would change the outcome.
Don’t leave your future and your children’s future to chance.
One last example . . . you may recall from news reports at the time the Virginia House of Delegates District 94 race from 2017. After a close result in the initial count led to the inevitable recounts and challenges, the election was declared a tie by the Virginia Supreme Court. In January 2018, the winner was determined by drawing lots. That result determined which party had control of the House of Delegates (51-49). There were 23,891 official votes cast in a district with a population of 79,429, one additional vote for either of the two major candidates could have determined the outcome. Can you imagine leaving the result up to chance?
At iVoterGuide, we think it's important to be an informed voter, so that you make the best choice—that's why we are here.
