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Stevepol

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2. Couldn't agree with you more.
Wed May 22, 2013, 07:29 PM
May 2013

To me the vote is the key to everything. It may seem that all these other issues are much more important than election reform but unless and until the vote is verifiable and consistently verified in every election, these other, admittedly extremely important, issues just will never be addressed. Every election cycle will have bunches of new Saxby Chamblisses taking the reins of power.

As long as the vote is counted in total secrecy without verification, you can't have a democracy. That's why the US, at the moment, is not a democracy and hasn't been one for quite a few years now.

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