Reply #8: Let's be accurate

[supernova]

Them's your opinions. ;-)

I know lots of people aren't poltically active and/or don't vote because they feel disenfranchised from the system. I belong to the demographic that is least interested in politics; I'm a single woman. Conventional Wisdom says I'm not politically active. But here I am. And I don't discount the BBV issue. It is something that needs to be researched and brought out into the open. I want transparency in the system.

However, along with that, we have to make people feel that they matter. You can't just, in a rhetorical sense, say "See, we told you you're votes don't count and here's conclusive proof," and expect them to just get active. Quite the contrary, it further depresses people.

You have to give them some sense that, not only do they matter, but they can fix the problem.

We all have different talents. I choose to focus on the latter. I leave the numbers games to people who are best at that.