They say that you, an individual do make that count. That is what they tell us when election day comes. They persuade you not to waste that vote and that it is everybody's birthright to choose their leader. A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step, so you do your share of your bargain.Cynics would reply them that a single swallow does not make up the whole summer. And that your single vote will never make the difference. That had never been a single incidence of an election decided by a single vote.
But wait, there is! A constituency in Rajasthan was indeed caught in such a predicament in a 2008 Elections. A Congress candidate secured 62,216 votes versus his BJP opponent who managed 62,215 votes. The recounting of the postal votes and later, all the votes, showed exactly the same results. That, in itself, demonstrated how accurate the counting was! Zero error rate.
The case later went to the courts when the loser accused the winner's second wife to have voted twice. The allegation took four long years to resolve. The BJP candidate was declared the winner, but he was not interested anymore. He had a better position at the Ministerial level.
That is what people must have thought when they made a beeline to the city centre today, 19th November 2016 - that they wanted to be the change that they wanted to see. Enough said that change starts with the man in the mirror. They held a peaceful demonstration despite the threats of unrest, water cannons and incarcerations that besieged them. They must have heeded to Gandhi's quotation, 'They can imprison me, but they cannot jail the whole country'.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/assembly-elections-2013/rajasthan-assembly-elections/Every-single-vote-counts-in-this-assembly-election/articleshow/26876261.cms
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