I don't think our votes are actually counted: Here's why

in politics •  4 years ago 

The past 3 months has seen a lot of people stating that there was widespread election fraud. This accusation gets thrown around a lot and every now and then a few people get busted for doing exactly that. I remember a few politicians getting into trouble for this sort of thing but it never really rises to any sort of high level and a lot of the time these people seem to me to simply be fall guys to protect a much bigger conspiracy.

While I don't know, and neither does anyone else that is coming forward about it whether or not there was election fraud this time around, I suspect that there was. There are certainly a few things that really should be investigated but of course, since the people who won the elections were the net recipients of said potentially fraudulent votes, nothing is going to be done about it. It would be nice if something would be done, especially about the situations where we have videos of people doing some really shady stuff, but if anything is being done about it, the media isn't going to talk about it and honestly, I don't really even care anymore.


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I would have preferred that Biden not be President even though I didn't particularly care for Trump either. As a Libertarian, I have ideals that don't really align with either party and for the most part I just want the government to stay out of my life and leave me alone provided I don't do any harm to another person. It's a pretty simple philosophy actually.

I do believe there was election fraud this time around but unlike a lot of the people screaming this now and the media giants the suppress any talk of this, I have thought that this fraud has existed for a very long time and it became very apparent to me back in 2012 in regards to a man named Ron Paul.


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Ron Paul was suppressed by the media in a very big way. When he pulled big numbers in straw polls, the media did whatever they could to not talk about it, when he won television polls the people holding the polls made unsubstantiated claims that the results were hacked. The gave the man nearly zero airtime despite the fact that his rallies were overflowing and people were becoming enthusiastic about politics, some of them for the first time in my life.

Ron Paul is not a Republican, he is Libertarian that realized early on in his career that the only way you can get into office is to have an R or D next to your name. Just ask Bernie Sanders whether or not this is true if you think I am wrong.

The country I live in is a small one. It is called Pitt County (awesome name) and we don't even have 200,000 people. A vast majority of the people in Pitt County live in Greenville, which is really the only city of any real consequence in the entire place.

Back in 2012 when Ron Paul was in the Republican primary, Pitt county was VERY enthusiastic about him. If you were to go around just about anywhere and especially in Greenville (again, where nearly half of all the residents of the county are) you would see almost exclusively Ron Paul signs in yards. If you talked to anyone about politics basically everyone was enthusiastic about Dr. Paul and loved his fresh approach and even though he wasn't the most poignant speaker, he seemed honest and "different" than your usual politician.


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The 30,000 university students were polled and Dr. Paul was the overwhelming choice in this poll.
As you would expect many of these students are not even conservative but even liberals found his message refreshing and it got them enthusiastic about voting and registration to vote were happening at an unprecedented pace among college students.

The day when the primary was going to happen in North Carolina was an exciting one and the lines were long at the library where we voted, people were chanting "Ron Paul, Ron Paul, Ron Paul" as we waited in line. I didn't know a single person that had planned to vote for anyone else except for one person who liked Mitt Romney for some reason.

We all went home that day with confidence that Ron Paul was going to have an overwhelming victory in Pitt County, it just didn't seem as though there was any other possibility given the level of overall enthusiasm for this man.

The next day the results were available and Ron Paul did not win, in fact, he had gotten less than 10% of the overall vote. This is completely unfathomable considering the fact that there was zero enthusiasm for any other Republican candidate on the sheet. Sure you could say that people were afraid to show their true colors for some reason or another even though Greenville definitely isn't Portland and is also an open carry and concealed carry state where that sort of shenanigans wouldn't last very long anyway, but for Paul to get less than 10% given what I witnessed that day is just impossible.

It was from that day forward that I stopped believing that votes are even counted. I started to believe that there is a group of elites that already know who is going to win and the rest of it is just a charade to keep the population in line.


I don't need a congressional investigation into this because they are all in on it anyway. It's an elite club and you are not part of it or at least that is how I think the statement goes.

My distrust in the voting procedure did not start in 2020 and it is a bit demoralizing to even feel compelled to vote. At least for me, I routinely vote for candidates that don't have any chance of winning anyway - even if the votes were counted.

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It's part of why I don't v*te.

I voted for H Ross Perot years ago. Everybody told me I was wasting my vote but whatever... That was long ago and I don't remember what he was about.

I wasn't old enough to vote when he was running but I think it would have been great for the USA is he hadn't dropped out and there are lots of stories about how nasty things started happening to him and his family because he was running. Also, it is no surprise that they blame him exclusively for splitting the vote that resulted in Clinton becoming president.