Source: Politics<\/p>\n
Not all Americans\u2019 votes are equal. And some have a way bigger impact than others.<\/p>\n
Every four years, a small handful of swing states are bombarded with advertising, candidate visits and more when the country picks the next president, while a majority of other voters are mostly ignored. But even in the key swing states, some House contests, governor\u2019s races and even legislative districts are far more competitive than others.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why the nonpartisan nonprofit Power Moves is rolling out a new Voter Impact Index \u2014 the details of which were shared first with POLITICO<\/a> \u2014 to help people take into account their voting power.<\/p>\n \u201cWe all learned in elementary school and middle school that every vote counts, and a vote is a vote,\u201d said Heather Weston, one of the group\u2019s co-founders. \u201cBut we kind of intuit that that’s not true. So what we really wanted people to understand is how geography really is connected to the impact of your vote.\u201d<\/p>\n The project utilizes all of America\u2019s 41,000-plus zip codes to measure how much of an impact a voter can have, something the organization\u2019s co-founders say is unique to their product.<\/p>\n