Reply #20: Good points. So voting is sort of useless? If every election is [View All]

determined by secret manipulation, isn't our voting, in and of itself, empowering the fraud? If we didn't vote, they couldn't manipulate the outcomes, right?

Here is one objection to your suggestions. Voting machine manipulation is most effective if it is undetected. The elections must be close in order for the manipulation to be viewed as a "it could have gone either way" situation. Obama was supposed to have been double digits ahead of Clinton. It would be counter productive to manipulate the vote to such a large extent, because of the very likelihood that the manipulation would be exposed. Do you think that Obama and/or Edwards would just silently swallow a primary being stolen form either of them to the tune of double digit fraud? If so, they neither deserve to be President, anyway. If there had been this big of a fraud, both campaigns would be screaming bloody murder - and they aren't...