AJR's Adam Met Breaks Down How Every Vote Matters In An Election

With Election Day 2020 just around the corner, many celebrities are encouraging everyone who is eligible to vote to head to the polls on November 3rd, including AJR's Adam Met.

Met was recently a guest on iHeartRadio's "Why I'm Voting" podcast, and broke down how every vote counts, not only in the presidential election, but especially the local level. He explained:

"Funny enough, I have a podcast coming out called 'Planet Re-imagined' where we talk about all different kinds of sustainability, and a few of the episodes have been about mobilization and voting, and finding out who you should be voting for and how you do that research. So, we've spoken to Andrew Yang about this, we've spoken to the founders of March For Our Lives, and they all have really interesting perspectives. And so I've kind of created my perspective out of an amalgam of all of these different people. And the first thing I always think about is the change that can be affected on the local level."

He continued, "Yes, you're voting in a presidential election and your vote absolutely matters, but let's say that's 300 million people. At the state level, you're also voting, and let's say on average that's somewhere around 10 million people, so your vote matters a little bit more. On the city level you're voting and there could be around one to two million people in your city — your vote matters even more. At the very local level, you could be voting among a pool of a few thousand people. And those are the elected officials that make the decisions about things that are so relevant to you today. Everything from police funding, whatever side of the issue you fall on on that, that is very much done at the local level. Climate initiatives, and that's something that I'm extremely passionate about, cities and states, they are some of the biggest funders of climate initiatives. New York City, where I am, they have amazing wind and solar programs. So, you don't necessarily need to just rely on the federal level for that to happen."

Listen to Adam Met's full "Why I'm Voting" episode on iHeartRadio.

"Why I'm Voting" features some the biggest stars, cultural influencers and athletes, sharing what matters to them most as the upcoming election approaches, and why it’s so important to show up to the ballot box. The podcast will run weekly through Election Day in November, and listeners will have the chance to talk about why they are voting, and can record and submit their own 20 second or less audio or video message at iHeartRadio.com/vote.

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