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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,664 posts) Wed Nov 15, 2017, 01:08 PM Nov 2017

"I'm not going to the polls. My vote doesn't count."

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"I'm not going to the polls. My vote doesn't count." (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2017 OP

Was that intended to be an argument refuting the "single vote doesn't count" idea or.. PoliticAverse Nov 2017 #1

Not if 35 people said it. NT mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2017 #2

Yeah but ... Yonnie3 Nov 2017 #3

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)

1. Was that intended to be an argument refuting the "single vote doesn't count" idea or..

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Nov 15, 2017, 01:27 PM

Nov 2017

supporting it? If you want to tell someone there single vote counts and you can't use an example
where a single vote made a difference haven't you effectively conceded the argument?

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,664 posts)

2. Not if 35 people said it. NT

Reply to PoliticAverse (Reply #1)

Wed Nov 15, 2017, 01:28 PM

Nov 2017

Yonnie3

(17,500 posts)

3. Yeah but ...

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Nov 15, 2017, 01:34 PM

Nov 2017

if only a few dozen Republican voters stayed home in Virginia districts 028 and 094 we would have control of the Virginia General Assembly.

Of course if a few dozen more Democrats voted ....

Tongue firmly planted in cheek here.

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