One Vote Counts - Montana - TimeLines of Liberty

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In Montana One Vote Does Count

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I believe my 'one vote' lists; National, by State, and Other; to be the most comprehensive listing on the internet.
Actually it is not just 1 vote but is 1 vote over or shy of a majority, or 'super-majority'. Any one voter of the victory tally had the power to sway the victory to a tie or the opposition. One vote is victory among many when the many have the majority. - Roger W Hancock.
I have included where one vote each over several precincts could have made a difference.

"A nation is only an individual multiplied." - Mark Twain, "The Turning-Point of My Life" Power of one vote.

MONTANA

One Vote Counts

1889

1 vote per precinct elected Montana's first governor, Joseph K. Toole. The victory was decided by 576 votes.

1917

1 vote by Jeanette Rankin, first congresswoman elected to the U.S. congress, ended her political career. A lifelong feminist and pacifist, she was the only dissenting vote to declare war on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

1984

1 vote in ten precincts elected. John Mercer to the State Legislature. After a recount the margin was only 5 votes. He later told a Missoulian reporter in 2000, he thought of those five votes and always knocked on a few more doors the night before an election.

2004

1 vote for the District 12 House seat gave the victory to Democrat Jeanne Windham over Constitution Party candidate Rick Jore. Windham went to court over whether the intent of 6 ballots were accurately determined. The court ruled that at least one ballot was not thus giving the election to the democrat. This one seat gives the House split 50/50 between Republicans and Democrats with the Democrats with control because the new Governor is a democrat.

2007

1 vote short in a Montana House Committee killed passage to repeal the death penalty.

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For more close votes in Montana go to:
http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2004/11/02/opinion/opinion3.txt
Timeline of Montana History

One Vote Sources - http://www.decades.com - http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2004/11/02/opinion/opinion3.txt -
http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2004/11/02/opinion/opinion3.txt - http://blog.aclu.org/index.php?/archives/151-Just-One-Vote.html -
http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2004/12/28/mtracker/news/73demos.txt -

Montana
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KY – LA – ME - MD – MA – MI – MN – MS – MO – MT – NE – NV – NH – NJ – NM – NY – NC
– ND – OH – OK – OR – PA – RI – SC – SD – TN – TX – UT – VT – VA – WA – WV – WI – WY –
"One Vote"

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