Jody's Garage - One Vote

ONE VOTE DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE !

WHY SHOULD YOU VOTE? HERE ARE SEVERAL EXAMPLES OF ELECTIONS THAT WERE WON BY VERY NARROW MARGINS:

1645 – One vote made Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England.

1649 – One vote caused Charles I to be executed.

1776 – The new government of the United States chose the English language over the German language by a margin of one vote.

1793 – One vote cost King Louis XVI his life. The French National Assemble decided by a one vote margin to execute the King.

1800 – One vote elected Thomas Jefferson President.

1824 – John Quincy Adams was elected president by the US House of Representatives over Andrew Jackson when one representative from New York changed his vote.

1839 – One vote elected Marcus Morton Governor of Massachusetts.

1845 – Texas became the 28^th state in the Union by one vote.

1868 – One vote saved President Andrew Johnson from impeachment.

1875 – One vote changed France from a monarchy to a republic.

1876 – One vote made Rutherford B. Hayes President of the United States.

1911 – An average of only one vote per precinct passed women’s suffrage in California.

1912 – Less than one vote per precinct, in one state, elected Woodrow Wilson President.

1920 – One vote made Adolph Hitler head of the Nazi Party.

1948 – If Thomas Dewey had received one more vote in each precinct in Ohio and California, his race with Harry Truman would have been thrown into the House of Representatives.

1960 – According to George W. Bush for President Campaign, if Nixon had received the following votes, he would have defeated John F. Kennedy:

1 more vote per precinct in Illinois (8,858 voters)

3 more votes per precinct in Missouri (9,880 voters)

3 more votes per precinct in New Jersey (22,091 voters)

1968 – A change of one vote per precinct in three states would have made Hubert Humphrey President instead of Richard Nixon.

YOUR VOTE COULD BE THE ONE THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE

(Special thanks to Dawn for this information)