You mean, a few hundred people's votes really make a difference in this situation. Voting has a bit of a free-rider problem. To a first approximation, one vot

You mean, a few hundred people's votes really make a difference in this situation. Voting has a bit of a free-rider problem. To a first approximation, one vote never makes a difference; but an attitude that voting doesn't make a difference (especially when unevenly distributed) definitely makes a difference.