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Remember Garamond there are other ways to make your vote count besides trying to help somebody win
the election. I live in a state where the electoral vote is always highly in favor of the other side
so I use my vote to help support third party candidates in the hopes of steering us away from two
party politics. |
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Yes, but in some states, where the winner is always easily predictable, your vote is not as
important as it would be in states where the result is always "nose-to-nose". But, if you don't
vote, don't complain ! |
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The Republicans have stolen the last two presidential elections in America through a mixture of
vote-suppression techniques and simply falsifying the results through electronic voting machines
which leave no paper record of the vote. It's hard to say that your vote counts when the guy who
gets the least votes wins.
However, you can only steal an election so far before it becomes obvious. Beyond rigging about 5% of
the vote, you run serious dangers of being exposed. The only way for the Democrats to really win,
then, is to swamp the Republicans in an electoral tsunami. Most likely this is what happened in the
congressional 2006 elections, and it may happen again this November. |
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I don't think it does. I said this to my mum before an election. I voted anyway out of principle,
but maintained it was pointless. Next day she said "look at that result there, [in a particular
seat] see how close that was and you say your vote doesn't change anything. The seat was won by a
margin of about 7. It was incredibly close but still wouldn't have changed a thing. I voted Green
party 2 elections ago just because the result was a forgone conclusion and I wanted to add a bit of
weight to their cause. But what difference did it make whether they got 1732 votes or 1733. None. |
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18 Jun 2008 07:30
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