How Can a Single Vote Decide an Election?

A single vote can decide an election if it’s the last one needed to make someone win. Imagine you're playing a game where you need exactly 10 points to win, if you have 9 and someone else has 9, whoever gets the next point wins. That’s like how elections work sometimes! A person's vote might be that final point.

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  1. A child's vote decides who becomes the school president.
  2. One person’s ballot changes which team wins the election.
  3. Just one more vote makes the class representative win.

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