Ron Paul - Wait, what?

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akuseru said:

Necromunda said:

dany612 said:
Too bad Ron Paul won't win.

You never know actually... He's so hysterically popular among younger voters and that popluarity is only increasing. If it continues on this trend and the younger generation actually votes, he may come out to be the underdog and win, you never know.

The saddest thing is that you actually believe that your vote will count when all comes to all. IF Ron Paul gets enough votes to win, he will just:

1. Lose due to cheating

2. Get assassinated

People who believe in Democracy; Do you actually think your vote is counted?  Also, what do you actually vote for?

All you vote for are lies and broken promises. Don't get fooled by the deception of Democracy. Who do you actually believe are controlling the modern politics? You have no voice, you give it away to someone who only cares about their own interests.

While I have no doubts there is cheating in modern elections, from the evidence of cheating I have seen it (mostly) looks like "small-time" fraud which is only going to influence the closest of elections ... and most of that could be eliminated by forcing people to demonstrate that they have a right to vote. You can strengthen this even further with some basic/low-tech solutions like having everyone ink their index finger when they vote.

On the digital voting systems, having the staff at the polling station mark a paper ballot with a way to identify that they handed it out and using that balot to create a paper-trail associated with voting machines will limit all potential forms of fraud.