National / Miscellaneous "One Vote" occurrences

   1 vote, according to folklore, gave America the English language instead of German.   Actually a request, made by a group of Virginia Germans, to have certain laws issued in German as well as in English was presented and the only measure rejected was to adjourn. By one vote, who knows ? 

Source - Urban Ledgends

   1 vote by Delaware delegate Caesar Rodney approved independence from England. Rodney was suffering from terrible cancer of the face. He rode through a rain storm 90 miles to Independence Hall. President John Hancock posed the question and Independence was approved as Rodney said, "Aye." With out the vote of Caesar Rodney the fight for Independence would have died.

Source - http://election.dos.state.fl.us/voterreg/1-vote.shtml

   1 vote in each of two state congressional delegations crossing the party line gives Thomas Jefferson the presidency, becoming our third president, after receiving a tie in the Electoral College.   Those individual votes together, prevented Aaron Burr, later charged with treason, from becoming President. The deciding vote was in the U.S. House of Representatives on the 36th ballot. 

Source - http://election.dos.state.fl.us/voterreg/1-vote.shtml - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election%2C_1800  - http://www.cwfa.org/factsheets/registertovote.pdf

   1 vote lost the re-election bid of James Monroe.

Source - http://www.meridianmagazine.com/ideas/041102one.html 

   1 vote avoiding a tie in the House of Representatives, when one member from New York changed his vote, elected President John Quincy Adams when all four candidates failed to receive a majority in the Electoral College, although Andrew Jackson received the majority of the nation's popular vote and the most electoral votes.  

Source - http://www.co.collier.fl.us/elections/onevote.htm 

   1 vote in the U.S. Congress passed "The Indian Removal Act".

Source - http://www.roberteleecwrt.org/present/kohn.html   http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=25

   I vote in the Senate on December 29th passed the ratification of a treated negotiated with the Cherokee Indians moving them west of the Mississippi.

Source -  Thirty Years View; A History Of The Working Of The American Government For Thirty years; From 1820 To 1850 p.624-625 - http://books.google.com/books?id=ToC71vhGwt4C&pg=PA625&lpg=PA625&dq=%22by+one+vote%22&source=web&ots=RV1EY0E8io&sig=g9wkIA94mGDxyCNWQrGfI2ammKo#PPP9,M1

   1 vote more in the Electoral College would have kept the Vice Presidential race of 1836 from being decided by the U.S. Senate.

Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election%2C_1836

   1 vote admitted Texas as the 28th state in the Union -- the one vote of Edward A. Hannigan, from Indiana (See Indiana).  Actually the votes were a Senate vote of 27 to 25 and a House vote of 132 to 75. The one vote could have tied the Senate.  For finalization it had to be ratified by the Texas Congress and voters. 

Source - Urban Folklore

   1 vote ratified The Alaskan Purchase paving the way for the admission of America's largest state in 1958. Alaska was purchased by the United States from Russia for $7.2 Million.

Source - http://www.co.collier.fl.us/elections/onevote.htm 

   1 vote fails legislation considered by the Dakota Territory legislature to give women the vote.

Source - http://www.suffragist.com/timeline.htm    

   1 vote short in the Electoral College was all Democrat Samuel Tilden needed for victory over Rutherford B. Hayes, but the elections in three states were in dispute (Florida was one of them).  Samuel Tilden had won the popular vote by a quarter of a million votes.
   1 vote by a 15 member electoral commission, newly established to recount and declare the result, secured the victory for and declaring Rutherford B Hayes President.    

Source - http://www.constantreader.org/books29.html

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   1 vote per precinct in Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, and Texas gives John F. Kennedy the presidency delaying the placement of Richard M. Nixon into the White House.  

Source - http://election.dos.state.fl.us/voterreg/1-vote.shtml 

   1 vote saved the International Space Station project in the U.S. House.

Source - http://d1p2.lcgop.info/onevote.php3

   1 vote by then Vice President Al Gore approved President Bill Clinton's budget that included the largest tax increase in American history.

Source - http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=4538

Your Vote Counts ! - Power of one vote !

Considering that the number of votes cast runs in the Billions, or more, the frequency of close votes comes often.  Out of 89,000 votes cast in U.S. Congressional elections, one vote was cast in an election where the candidate won by a single vote or was tied. The frequency rate is greater in state legislator elections where one in 15,000 votes had been cast for a candidate winning by one vote or was tied.

Only 36.4 percent of voters cast their ballots in 1998, the lowest since 1942. Nearly two out of three of the 115 million eligible American voters did not bother to vote.

Between 1972 and 2000 the national voting turn-out for the 18-24 year age group declined by 10 percent.

In 1998 less than 20 percent of 18-24 year-olds chose to vote.  That is one in five.

In 2000 only 42 percent of 18-24 year-olds bothered to vote. That same year only 75 percent of those older than 25 voted.

Looking at the statistics of just one demographic, with voter turn-out being low in all demographics and with so many races running close, one can see how powerful a coalition of votes can be. Even your One Vote has an influence to increase the power of those who do vote as you would.

When you do not vote, by default you cast your vote against the person or proposal you would prefer. When you do not vote, that vote is one less the opposition has to overcome, thus your "no vote" is a vote for them. The inconveniences of voting is just one small price to pay for the liberty we enjoy. Get up, Get out and vote!

© Roger W Hancock 2004-2007 www.PoetPatriot.com

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