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Digitized from Box 4 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
NOVEMBER 4, 1974
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
Tomorrow is Election Day all over America.
Every eligible voter will send a message to Washington and to the world
tomorrow. Those who vote -- whether they vote for Republican or
Democratic candidates or for others will be voting "YES" for our
American tradition of government by the people and for the people.
Everyone who can get to the polls and fails to go, who refuses to exercise
the precious right of a free citizen to vote his or her honest conviction,
is actually voting "NO" on our system of self-government.
Some surveys indicate a turnout tomorrowof only 40 percent of the voting
population. If this is true, the Congress with which I must work here in
Washington to control inflation, strengthen the economy and preserve
peace in the world, could be elected by only 21 percent of the voters,
I don't think anyone wants that kind of minority rule.
So I ask you, my fellow Americans, to make the time tomorrow to go to
the polls and vote for the candidates of your choice. You will be voting
for your own future and exercising the power vested in a free people
which has carried this country forward for nearly 200 years.
You will not just be voting for Democrats or Republicans. You will be
casting your vote of confidence in the United States of America.
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