Imagine you're picking a team for a game. If all the other kids choose Team A, but you pick Team B, and that makes Team B win, it feels like one person changed everything. In elections, it's kind of like that: if everyone else votes for one candidate, but just one person votes differently, that can change who wins the whole election! It’s called a tiebreaker, and sometimes only one vote is needed to tip the scale.
Examples
- If you're the only one who votes for Team B when everyone else is voting for Team A, Team B might win!
- One person’s vote in a race where it's 50-50 can change who wins.
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See also
- How Does a Pop Vote Really Work in an Election?
- How Can a Single Vote Decide an Election?
- What is first-past-the-post?
- What is Single transferable voting (STV)?
- How Does The Voting System That's Too Good for Politicians to Allow Work?