ONE Vote

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THE IMPORTANCE OF ONE VOTE
Mary W. Morgan, Supervisor of Elections
The most often heard excuse for not voting in an election is "my one little vote won't make a difference." Yet history is full of instances proving the enormous power of one single vote. Consider this: In 1645, one vote gave Oliver Cromwell control of England.
* In 1649, one vote literally cost King Charles I of England his head. The vote to behead him was 67 against and 68 for -- the ax fell thanks to one vote.
* In 1714, one vote placed King George I on the throne of England and restored the monarchy.
* In 1776, one vote gave America the English language instead of German (at least according to folk lore.)
* In 1824, none of the four Presidential candidates received an electoral majority. The election was again thrown into the House of Representatives, where John Quincy Adams defeated front runner Andrew Jackson by one vote to become the nation's 6th president. Andrew Jackson received the majority of the nation's popular vote.
* In 1844 in the backwoods area of Switzerland County, Indiana on election day, 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. David Kelso had defended old Freeman Clark on a murder charge and obtained his acquittal. The old farmer Freeman Clark got to vote for Kelso but Clark died on his way back home. Kelso won the election by one vote. Both Freeman Clark and David Kelso were long-time Andrew Jackson supporters.
* In 1845, Texas was admitted to the union as a state by one vote .
* In 1846, a one vote margin in the U.S. Senate approved President Polk's request for a Declaration of War against Mexico.
* In 1850, California was admitted to the union by a margin of one vote.
* In 1859, Oregon was admitted to the union by a margin of one vote.
* The Alaska Purchase of 1867 was ratified by just one vote --paving the way for the eventual annexation of America's largest state in 1958.
* In 1868, one vote in the U.S. Senate saved President Andrew Johnson from impeachment.
* In 1875, a one vote margin changed France from a monarchy to arepublic.
* In 1875, Florida's U.S. Senators were still elected by the state Legislature. Democrat Charles W. Jones of Pensacola was elected by the U.S. Senate by a majority of one vote.
* In 1994, the U.S. House of Representatives enacted a law banning specific classes of assault weapons. The vote was initially tied but one member changed his vote to approve the ban.
* Bills proposing amendment to the U. S. Constitution require a 2/3's vote of each House in order to be approved. When the balanced budget amendment bill came before the U.S. Senate in March, 1995, the measure failed by one vote --Mark Hatfield, Republican from Oregon, was the sole Republican failing to vote with other members of the Republican Party which was the majority party of the U.S. Senators. When it became apparent the measure would fail, Senate Republican Whip Bob Dole changed his vote to enable him to bring the matter back up under parliamentary rules for a vote in the future.

Go make your ONE VOTE count.