NationStates Jolt Archive

Currently Norion has 475 endorsements. (I don't know, but I think that may be the most)
I am wondering, even with that many votes, if a delegate's or member's vote(s) really matters.
How many resolutions are passed with a margin of 475 or less?
Most are passed with very large margins, leaving one to wonder if there really is a point in voting.

If less and less people vote then there will be smaller and smaller margins and so the vote counts even more.

F.Y.I:

On the last resolution that was passed around 49.7% of the UN electorate voted. This means that a person's vote, especially if it had been a close call on a resolution, would mean even more than if everybody had voted.

In the Community of Gurthark, we highly value our right to vote.

This is despite the fact that, with a population of over 100 million, it has never once happened that one of our initiatives passed or failed with a margin of less than 500,000. By comparison, the margins on United Nations resolutions are small indeed.

Voting, we believe, should be seen as a community activity. One vote, by itself, does not make much of a difference--just as one person recycling, giving money to charity (except in rare cases), or devoting themselves to our national good do not, by themselves, make much of a difference. That's the beauty of community: The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Sincerely,
Miranda Googleplex
United Nations Ambassador
Community of Gurthark

In the Community of Gurthark, we highly value our right to vote.

This is despite the fact that, with a population of over 100 million, it has never once happened that one of our initiatives passed or failed with a margin of less than 500,000. By comparison, the margins on United Nations resolutions are small indeed.

Voting, we believe, should be seen as a community activity. One vote, by itself, does not make much of a difference--just as one person recycling, giving money to charity (except in rare cases), or devoting themselves to our national good do not, by themselves, make much of a difference. That's the beauty of community: The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Sincerely,
Miranda Googleplex
United Nations Ambassador
Community of Gurthark

Whilst the whole IS greater than the sum of the parts, as the Tesco advert says - 'every little helps'. If one person didn't vote, then another and another (etc), it would show that a person's vote is very important and so individual votes are just as important as the 'whole vote'.

Of course individual votes are important. It's like that one episode of the Simpsons. Bart and Martin were both running for class president. Everyone liked Bart and his ideas, but they all thought one vote didn't matter. It ended up that nobody voted except Martin, so he ended up winning.

I always vote on UN resolutions when I'm there to vote on them. Now that my vote counts eight times as much I'm going to try even harder.