© 2008 Votelessness. 
The secret ballot has long been a pretty important part of functioning democracy. It seems that if people are able to find out how you voted, they could coerce you to do it differently than you might be inclined to otherwise do. I know if someone with a recently-broken nose and a large, slightly-bent segment of iron pipe asked me to vote for Ken McGillicuddy for city council…
Electronic voting machines manufactured by Elections Systems and Software (ES&S) lost over six thousand three hundred votes in the 2002 general elections in Alabama. Sometime after the polls had closed and well after elections workers had gone home, the optical scan machines used to tally the vote in the gubernatorial race lost the votes which were all cast for Don Siegelman, the Democratic candidate for governor.
I’m totally down with insurrection in the street. I’ve had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation. –Jello Biafra
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“Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans” –Will Rogers
Alright guys, I want to get out there and vote tomorrow. And not because it’s cool, because it’s not. You know what is cool? Smoking. Smoke while you vote. -Jon Stewart
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“A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”
-Teddy Roosevelt
Florida screws up again. Voters all over the state were confused and confounded in their attempts to vote in the state’s primary elections. Democrats trying to cast their ballots were told that there was no Democratic primary in Florida this year. They were told this by state election workers
“Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: ‘Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.”