I. Revising Essays for Unity T he following paragraph contain s an irrelevant sentence that do es not relate to the thesis of the essay or support the topic sentence of the paragraph in which it appear s . Cross out the irrelevant sentence and write the number of the sentence in the space provided. The Power of the Vote 1 Since 1971, voter turn-out in America has been less than 60 percent during a presidential election year and 40 percent during a non-presidential election year. 2 Those who don't vote claim that their vote wouldn't make any difference and they are powerless to change anything. 3 However, in January 2012, Web sites like Wikipedia and Google demonstrated just how powerful the voices of the American people really are. 4 I n October 2011, two bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Properly Act (PIFA), were introduced. 5 B i lls are regularly introduced in both the House and the Senate. 6 The purpose of these bills was to make i t easier for the U.S. Department of Justice to block sites that sell or distribute pirated copyrighted material like music and movies as well as sites that sell counterfeit items like purses and watches. 7 Neither of the bills would have necessarily shut down the sites, but it would have allowed the U.S . Department of Justice to require Internet service providers t o block access to the sites and stop providers, search engines, and advertisers from doing business with such sites. 8 Those in favor of the bills claimed the bills would protect jobs and revenue, but those against the bills saw them as an infringement of freedom of information. The number of the irrelevant sentence: