“Your vote matters” was the most repeated platitude to emerge from the 2000 U.S. presidential election. But, the uncertainties of the recount mechanism—procedural, legal and human—showed that any individual vote counts even less than the skeptics had believed.
Now More Than Ever, Your Vote Doesn’t Matter
By Cecil E. Bohanon, T. Norman Van Cott
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the Spring 2002 issue of The Independent Review.
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