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Show THE VOTE THAT COUNTS It isn't alone the men and women who go to the polls who decide an election, but those who do not go. It will be true in this momentous presidential ejection, as it has been in others. And the closer the election, the more important is the "slacker vote" factor. A shift of GOO votes would have changed the result of the presidential election of 1881. Grover Cleveland won because he carried the state of New York by a margin of less than 1,200 votes. Four years later, he lost the state by only 1-1,000 votes. In 1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elect-ter elect-ter governor by a plurality of less than 26,000. The Christian Science Monitor has heretofore pointed out that "the man who defeats good government is the man who doesn't vote". This is still true. Figures bear it out. With nearly 73,000,000 persons in the country 21 or over enumerated in the 1930 census (the great majority of whom were eligible to vote), less than 46,000,000 cast a vote in the 1936 presidential contest, and over 27,000,000 eligible voters did not vote at all over one-third of the electorate. With the issues at stake in this election, any lazy or careless voter who stays away from the polls and dismisses the matter by saying, "My vote wouldn't change the result anyway", or "one vote doesn't count", is not only foregoing! a privilege as a citizen, but is failing in a duty to good government, to democracy itself. It is the men and women: who srv ! cir votes "don't count" whose votes do count, and which in the aggregate often decide an election. Christian' Science Monitor. ( |