evidence: Your vote may not count much, but it matters "If voting really mattered they wouldn’t let us do it." — Mark Twain A familiar complaint among the citizenry around election time — centered on the seeming irrelevancy of the ballot box and the feeling that an individual’s vote doesn’t matter since the established powers will continue to run affairs as they see fit, regardless of voter input —is encapsulated in the above quote by American humorist Mark Twain. We are in the midst of an election and —whether Twain said it, or not —your vote absolutely counts.