"Chambers" <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote in message
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> On 5/2/2009 7:24 AM, somebody wrote:

> > People can certainly affect what happens by voting. A *person*, on the
other
> > hand, has, in the history of humanity, never affected the outcome in a
> > general election by his or her vote,

> By general, do you mean national?

More or less. Anything with voters in the thousands or more.

> There have certainly been cases where national elections have been
> decided by a few thousand votes, but I believe you're correct that it's
> never come down to a single vote before.
>
> On the other hand, local elections (which arguably have a much more
> immediate effect on the voters) frequently do come down to a few dozen
> votes, and have on occasion been decided by a single vote.

Possible, since there are so many elections everyday somewhere, but highly
improbable for any single election that I had a right to vote.

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