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CARLEtheCamry t1_ivyo1i8 wrote

Reply to comment by SnooRevelations9889 in Any official updates to the State House election?? by [deleted]

> "My vote" might not matter, but "our votes" swing elections.

A lot of this stems from people not understanding how the elections work. I live in a red county, and a lot of people have the perception that their vote doesn't matter because of the way the Presidential elections work with the electoral college - they thing the entire county "goes" to a candidate and that's it, because that's the map they're used to seeing.

That's not how the midterms work. Every vote counts. If I was the only person in my county to vote for Fetterman, it still counts towards the statewide count.

The urban counties do the heavy lifting for sure - but my red county still had about 35% voting Dem. Without those votes the election would have turned out quite differently.

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SnooRevelations9889 t1_ivyqg6x wrote

And information people can be hard work.

It's sad but true that people have a general bias towards inaction that drives down voting rates.

People will tend to believe the things that mean they don't need to do anything.

I've had Independent voters insist to me they weren't allowed to vote in non-Presidential year general elections, because they weren't registered with a party.

FACT: There is an election ever November in PA, and all registered voters, regardless of party registration, are eligible to participate.

(The situation for the spring primary elections is a little more muddled. Unaffiliated/minor party candidates won't have primary candidates to vote for, but there are sometimes referenda for PA Constitutional amendments, or local issues. But November, every year.)

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