In an era in which elections are decided on the margins, every vote matters –especially yours. Photo: Shutterstock
Don’t believe your vote matters?
Consider, for a moment, your day. Do you struggle to get to work on time because the train or bus is late again? Are you worried about the next big rainstorm and the flooding it might bring to your neighborhood? Are you discouraged by bad air quality in your city? Or depressed by another boat hitting and killing a whale? Then, you should know your vote matters.
Who you vote into office colors every aspect of your life–from the purity of the air you breathe to the safety of the water you drink. Elected officials at every level devise legions of policies that affect everything from our transit system to recycling laws to the speed at which boats whiz through a harbor. State legislators create rules limiting pollution or…
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