There’s not much more that can be said or done on the last evening before Election Day. Probably most of you have made up your mind on the candidates and the questions. If you haven’t kept on top of it and aren’t sure what to do, remember this: The most important single thing that you can do is to go out and vote.
You’d be surprised if you knew how many elections have been determined by a tiny margin, simply because people just didn’t show up at the polls. Here’s a real life example that I’ll never forget: An incumbent candidate for the Bridgewater-Raritan School Board, a friend of mine and a good person, once lost his re-election bid by a single vote. He appealed via a re-count, but the numbers held.
The irony of that true-to-life story is that, at the last minute, I had asked two people to go out and to vote for him. Not thinking their vote important, they stayed away from the polls. Those two votes would have kept him in office for another three years!
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