Voter Turnout vs Does My Vote Count








So go vote Tuesday!


5 thoughts on “Voter Turnout vs Does My Vote Count

  1. Rumor has it that how _often_ you vote is not secret. If so it might make a difference in how much attention the staffer pays to your mail: which stack it gets put in. You probably have to pull more weight than that to get the candidate to read anything, unless they’re trying for local school board.

    I should check that rumor out one of these days.


    • The link I put in on voter files above had some stuff about that. They definitely can track how often you vote and it looks like there is a lot of interest in targeting things towards the consistent voters and then figuring out how to get the intermittent voters to show up.


  2. My wife researches all the local downballot candidates, so people call her the night before the election to ask her who to vote for. I think at max she controlled a dozen votes, and those likely had some downstream effect of spouses and children. I think most teachers used to ask Ginny Dumas who to vote for at CCHS.


  3. Thinking about when your vote won’t count because elections are so lopsided in your area: Two years ago I voted for Evan. My husband held his nose and gagged while voting for Trump. In the electoral college, the Washington state electors saw their vote for Hilary wouldn’t matter, so three of them voted for Colin Powell, and one for Faith Spotted Eagle.


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