In the Texas November 2002 General Election, 29.3% of eligible voters went to the polls to cast their ballots. Many people say that they don’t think that just one more vote counts.

Here is just some historical evidence to the contrary.

• In 2004, Tom Abraham was elected by 2 votes for the position of City of Sugar Land, TX Council Member At Large
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• In 1999, Leslie Byrne was elected to the Virginia Senate by 37 votes, less than one vote per precinct.
• Donald Sherwood was elected to the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania by a margin of 515 votes, less than one vote per precinct, making this election the closest House of Representatives race in 1998.
• Loretta Sanchez was elected to Congress from California by less than 4 votes per precinct in 1996.
• John F. Kennedy's margin of victory over Richard Nixon in 1960 was less than one vote per precinct.
• One vote per precinct passed woman suffrage in California in 1911.

Updated: Mon, Aug 28, 2006