I have voted in every election I could since I turned 18. In one of those elections, my preferred candidate won by a mere 129 votes out of 2.8 million votes ca

I have voted in every election I could since I turned 18. In one of those elections, my preferred candidate won by a mere 129 votes out of 2.8 million votes cast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Washington_gubernatorial_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Washington_gubernatorial_... If you don't vote, you won't be able to tell if your vote "really mattered" in an election until it's too late to do anything.