Do you really think your vote counts?

Question

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Answer 1

There is no question that Florida and other states who use Diebold have had rigged elections, Southern Florida especially! What is even worse, many states can print results, but they are the same changed votes, therefore worthless!

I don't care how long it takes to count, paper ballots should still be used!

But in many cases your vote does matter! I have seen elections won by 1 vote and often by less than 100. They might not be the presidential race, but local politics sometimes is just as important!

Someone should have gone to jail over what happened in Florida!

Answer 2

Of course, every vote counts. I have never seen a person that won complain that the election was wrong. It is strange how only when you loose is the system bad. If you think the system is bad why are you not working at the poles?

If you think Florida was wrong then why was it ok for decades and was only wrong in the election you lost? This was the election system that Florida wanted and had for years. The rules are quite clear. If you think the Supreme Court was wrong, you know nothing about the law or the history of elections in this country.

The Safeharbor provision was put in place to protect the vote. The Safeharbor provision says that if the rules of an election are followed they must be accepted. Florida had the same rules of election in place for decades. To change the rules of certifying an election for just this one election can not and should not ever be allowed.

If the rules on an election can be challenged to create a condition that the votes of a state can not be certified then the whole state has lost the vote. If a vote can not be certified the election would be turned over to the congress.

It is clear that if this is allowed to happen then all elections would be challenged and all elections would be done by the congress. The people would no longer have any vote.

The manner of the vote is up to the states and if the people of a state want to elect a presided by whatever system they have that is their business.

Answer 3

Not mine. I don't live in a battleground state. I have never seen a commercial paid for by a presidential campaign, my vote counts so little.

Answer 4

Yes. It is the only time I have to participate in government. My one vote may not decide a race, but for me it means that I put my two cents in. And....that gives me griping rights.

Answer 5

Yes. If only because it actually states my preferences for the direction the government will take. It may only be one vote, but each and every vote is important.