If Voting is Rigged - Does Anything Matter?

[Jack_Dawson]

Seriously. Bush could defacate on stage and lobby for killing the handicapped. But since the Pukes own the voting machines, and Dems don't seem to give a f*%# what can we really do?

:shrug: :beer:

[Cocoa]

1. good news from Virginia

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x285692

[BeHereNow]

2. Basically- no.

You are 100% correct.
Like the saying goes, it doesn't
matter how you vote, it's who counts the votes that matters.
Coup complete.
BHN

[neoblues]

3. Good Point, if a bit crudely stated.

Yet even if Bush did those things, we'd never hear about it--beyond rumors--rumors which would be held against us as Democrats trying to sling mud. All a result of the next biggest problem we have--that we have no access to public mass media. With no valid media companies (and five really huge, utterly invalid ones), they can get away with anything--and we'd never even know it happened. Of course, by that same mechanism--even if we had an honest electoral system--our candidates would have their reputations destroyed on the basis of false quotes and misinformation which the media will present as though it was real and factual and unchallenged (and therefore presumed true), to the point that we'd have a mighty hard time getting elected (regardless of valid vote counts--though, obviously, if we can't get honest counting, we have exactly zero reason to expect to ever win except perhaps as token wins here or there which would be allowed so that they can claim "see, there's no rigging of the vote or else you'd never have a win"). Go figure.