Everyone has the right to vote!

Back in school, we were taught about voting. It was a right for all citizens. Men could vote, Women could vote. All races could vote. You just had to be a citizen.

Fast forward to adulthood.

We're all able to vote. We're just not necessarily assure that our vote will be counted. We never could be sure that our ballot wasn't thrown in the trash by some election official that needed to come up with a specific result. We never can be sure that our electronic votes are being counted any more securely than our paper votes were.

We're also never sure that citizens are the ones voting. There are supposedly millions of illegal aliens voting in every election.

Then again, they are supposedly counting our votes in the first place. Who is to say every vote has ever been counted. Elections are a "black box" for most people. The average voter has little exposure beyond dropping in the ballot or clicking on a choice. We have no way of knowing anything beyond the moment we make our selection and hope for the best.

On a brighter note, it's at least a little comforting that important decisions arn't being made by 200 million apathetic neighbors that have no idea what they are really choosing. At least we can assume that in a fixed election, the people with the power actually know something about the issues on the ballot and their long term societal ramifications.

Isn't our best interest ultimately their best interest? maybe? hopefully? please? *lol*