Edgartown residents will vote at the historic Whaling Church this year.
Here are some examples from history of how one vote made a difference:
In 1776, one vote made America's language English, rather than German.
Women won the right to vote in 1920 by passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.Tennessee, the last state who needed to pass the amendment, ratified the amendment by one vote.
One vote elected Rutherford B. Hayes to the presidency in 1876, and the man in the Electoral College who cast that vote was an Indiana Congressman elected to his seat by one vote.
In 1923, one vote made Adolph Hitler head of the Nazi party in Germany.
John F. Kennedy won the presidency in 1960 by just one vote per precinct in Illinois. If one more voter in each precinct had voted for Richard Nixon, he would have received the electoral votes from Illinois and consequently become president instead of Kennedy.
- Compiled by the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts
On Tuesday, make your one vote count.
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