And again. And again and again and again. Because no matter how often you warn people that most ballots cast in the US are totally unverifiable, you continue to vote and do not discourage others from voting.

I think it is the height of apathy to cast a ballot when you have no way to know for certain if it was counted accurately.

But since at least 50% of the electorate is so apathetic that they continue to cast ballots in elections where the results are unverifiable, and where they know that there is a good possibility of votes being uncounted or miscounted, the same problems will keep happening again and again and again.

If you want honest, fully transparent, verifiable elections, a way to hold candidates accountable once they're in office, and real change, you've got to stop voting.

http://fubarandgrill.org/node/1172

The height of apathy is how you describe people who actually take the time to vote? That's about the most convoluted reasoning I've ever heard. They're not apathetic, they're uninformed. In fact many are so uninformed they even vote for democrats

RIP, United States of America, bye bye democracy. China is the main recipient of the inheritance.

The biggest criminal in this is the criminally aiding-and-abetting US news media.

At least we don't have to worry that any of these problems could possibly be the result of voter fraud !

The Rebooblicans slayed THAT dragon when they succeeded in shutting down ACORN ... right ?

Yes, WingnutSteve, half are so uninformed that they vote for Democrats and the other half are so uninformed that they vote for Republicans or third parties. But all voters are apathetic.

Voting is the act of declaring yourself incompetent and electing guardians you won't be able to hold accountable to manage your affairs for you, because you're so apathetic that you don't really care what they do. When they steal you blind, it proves that you were correct, as no competent person would designate guardians they can't hold accountable to manage their affairs.

WingnutSteve -

Please feel free to ignore Mark Smith on that issue as the rest of us have been doing for years. He continues to be under the delusion that somehow, with the vast majority of Americans already not voting in elections, that somehow, something would change if even more of them didn't.

Mark Smith -

As long as you have been reading this blog, and beating that same dead horse, I'd think you'd have your facts a bit straighter by now. You assert that "most ballots cast in the US are totally unverifiable," which is entirely and completely untrue. Seriously, are you paying attention at all? Or are you so tied to your pointless, self-defeating hobby horse that you simply wait for me to post an article that has the word "elections" in it so you can once again choke the same dead chicken?

"If you want honest, fully transparent, verifiable elections, a way to hold candidates accountable once they're in office, and real change, you've got to stop voting."

Your plan continues to be ingenious! Can't see any downsides to it whatsoever! Should work any moment!

Have you considered expanding it to other initiatives? Perhaps if everyone stopped breathing, it would convince people we need to pass new clean air legislation! What could possibly go wrong?

Dope.