I think it's vital to vote. I don't disagree with what you've said, but if we just give up, we've totally lost.
2006-10-26 04:21:02
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answered by Anonymous
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As it would be very cliche to say our vote counts. It does, and it doesn't.
There is a considerable amount of voter fraud possible, but doesn't always take place, simply because people don't vote, and people can't sometimes be bothered to vote. Some of the big problems with voting is that they don't require some kind of identification. The idea that you can vote without it is ludicrous. I have my registration card, and if you gave me 5 minutes with a scanner, a good printer and photoshop, I could be cranking out fakes in no time. The argument that requiring ID at the voting both punishes immigrants, minorities, old people, et. al is equally ridiciulous, at any given time, i'm carrying at least 5 or 6 forms of ID, in the form of ID cards issued at a job, state ID cards, hell, even a blood donation card, though my name is misspelled.
There is evidence of dead people voting, take Louisiana as a case study. At any given election, there have been people dead since the 1800's voting, democrats, (and republicans to be bi-partisan) get a hold of the voting rolls from the past and will just grab people off the street and go "hey, vote for this person and you get......" And every election year, EVERY, in some of the outer parishes out in the boonies, there are always a few votes for Huey P. Long that pop up, and he's been dead since the 30's!!!
Unfortunately there are some ways our vote doesn't count, we vote and then the tallies go to the state electoral college, and based on those numbers, they select the candidate that we the people are in favor for.
Supreme Court intervention is neccessary and it isn't that ridiculoud "oh well, THE COURTS picked the president" no they didn't you imbecile. They take the original tallies, the original counts, and then BASED ON THE EVIDENCE draw a conclusion that is left to lower courts and legal system to put into place. They won't count votes that came in after the polls closed, or any absentee ballots that didn't make it. Nor the 3000 "uncounted votes" that were convieniently misplaced in the back of a truck.
As electronic voting machines go, meh, who cares, there's always going to be glitches, the idea that they are bias is insane, oh yes, a code of "1s and 0s" is going to select candidate "A' over candidate "B", the corrupt are just afraid of such advances because it means they have to devise new ways to "stuff the ballot box" Any hacker with time, patience an know how can hack those things easily, by I'm thinking they won't. Because the people will screw things up enough on their own.
As a parting thought, I have a quote to submit:
"Americans are amazing, they will cross oceans and continents to fight and die for democracy, but most americans can't be bothered to cross a street and vote in theirs"
2006-10-26 11:41:44
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answered by Fred K 2
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Funny thing about the Gore election, that nobody seems to hear about, was that 5 big newspapers, (Chicago Tribune, New York Times, etc) actually funded an effort to count all the votes in Florida. When it was done, Gore actually ended up with the most votes. Not making this up. Bush was asked about this, and said it was time we move on. But otherwise, one vote, in all honesty whatever. Its called rational ignorance in economics because one vote has so little impact that it doesn't make sense for someone to spend all that time researching canidates.
2006-10-26 11:22:21
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answered by defenserocks28 2
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Does every vote count? Ask the thousands of people that voted for Al Gore during his run for the Presidency. Mr. Gore got the popular vote but Bush won the electoral college. So there's your answer....thousands more votes were cast for Gore than Bush...but who's the President?
2006-10-26 15:57:16
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answered by Anonymous
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I sure would like to see our elections go to a popular vote system. At the end of the day who ever gets the most votes wins.
2006-10-26 14:33:37
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answered by Allinwiththenuts 4
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Yes while there is voter fraud, ( and I have to wonder why the democrats have fought so hard against requireing ID to vote, that would stop alot of zombies from voting since they can't get ID cards for the dead.
But yes votes count more so because it takes more votes for the best candidate to overcome the liberals who have used as many illegal votes as they can get
2006-10-26 11:17:08
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answered by Anonymous
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In lieu of a recount? By "recount," do you mean the sudden discovery of enough votes to allow the Democrat to win? We seem to need to always recount when the Democrats don't win. When the GOP doesn't win, no recount is necessary.
2006-10-26 11:15:45
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answered by Anonymous
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Voting is a privilege,that Americans take to lightly. If
people don't vote than soon we may have no rights or privileges.Think about THAT EVERYONE.Also if you
don't vote you have nothing to say about policies made for
you didn't vote.
2006-10-26 12:44:32
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes, every vote counts. Remember the hanging chads in FL? If more of those chads had been for Gore, he would be Pres today and the course of history would be vastly different.
Vote Dem in Nov.
2006-10-26 11:16:29
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answered by notyou311 7
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No your vote does not count. No matter who wins they are just puppets for the people behind the scenes & these people are on all sides. They take no chances in covering all bets.
2006-10-26 11:21:46
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answered by ChaliQ 4
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