Reply #24: I don't think "we" do.

[dotymed]

With the easily hacked voting machines and the over-the-top corporate money added to the low voter participation in America, I don't think "we" have a damned thing to say about who is selected.

We deserve a complete overhaul of the electoral process in America. Compare "our" system with that of any 1st world nation. Just like health care, it is all about profits and we are dead last.

Private money should and could easily be taken out of our electoral process. A few public service requirements of our media would enable every candidate EQUAL air-time, so people could vote on issues not all of the slander and lies.

Require that ALL votes be hand counted and independently verified, with receipts given to all voters in case there is a dispute. (the purple fingers "worked" for Iraq. Of course (like us) they could vote for the puppet or the puppet.

Make it illegal not to vote or (at the least) incentivize voting. Actually, if our votes do count, there are incentives to vote already. Mandatory voting is needed.

When I "worked the polls," the inequity was glaring. At "my" voting place, we had 2 Democrats and about 12 repubs working there. I witnessed (eventually I was escorted out by "the law") voter caging and a multitude of irregularities in addition to the non-existent work ethic of the repubs there, who chose to play and eat instead of doing their job.

Making America's elections actually work is a simple task, as is solving many American "problems." Yet, TPTB convince people that our problems are anything but easily fixed. So the majority actually reinforce the insanity.