This is because votes in a city election may not be concerned about issues such as the candidate's stand on abortion, but rather their stand on the addition of a firehouse while in presidential elections, it would be the exact opposite. These changes would inspire more people to vote or at least make the ones who are currently voting more politically aware. The increase in participation by young people could change the outcomes of elections. In the Alaska Republican Presidential Straw Poll, George W. Bush beat Steve Forbes by only five votes. If Forbes could have beat Bush here, it could have given him more support and donations.
Many people today take for granted the privilege to vote.
They forget how many people in the past have fought and even died so that their children and grandchildren would have the opportunity to do what they couldn't. Voting gives people the opportunity to change things for the better. The people who are voted in make the decisions of which army bases to add or close. They have the ability to create new jobs and change political policies that effect our lives. Some of the policies they make seem to have little or no effect on us individually, but other things have a direct effect on us such as policies concerning taxes.