One of the reasons I don’t vote is because my vote is unlikely to ever change the outcome of an election. Not even if I had lived in Florida in 2000, would my one vote have tipped the scales.
Well, it turns out one-vote elections do actually happen. This week there was one in the county I grew up in, of all places.
After a recount, Jim Kaplan won the Racine County 4th District Supervisor position. By one vote.
He’s also an alderman, and plans to hold both positions going forward. Not sure how I feel about that.
There’s one reason to reconsider my non-voting stance.
Inertia Wins! 