“He who votes decides nothing; he who counts the votes decides everything.”
-Joseph Stalin

If there’s a common theme you can count on after an election, it’s partisan crybabies whining about their candidates losing because of every reason in the book EXCEPT that they didn’t deserve to win.

Particularly, ballot irregularities are a favorite topic among voters, but rarely until after the election when their candidate doesn’t win (think back to 2000 with the “hanging chads” debate in Florida and again in 2004 with the software glitches of Ohio). It’s a fact that the most popular liberal excuse is that the voting system in their market was 1). flawed or 2). complicated.

According to the MN Daily ^[1], “About 40 percent of registered voters will use some kind of electronic voting system this fall. Some states, Minnesota included, require voting machines to create a paper trail, to provide assurance against fraud or failure.”

In fact, we don’t use direct recording electronic (DRE) voting machines like other states, and instead use paper ballots and optical scanners, which should make it simple stupid to cast a vote in MN. You’ve had a minimum of 4 years go learn how to vote since the last major election, so I refuse to listen to you tell a news reporter you were confused or bewildered by the process.

And because DREs are also “…at risk for some of the same potential programming errors as DREs,” according to the Pioneer Press ^[2], we’re lucky there’s a human review process overseeing us Minnesota voters.

If you really want to stop the whining, you can volunteer to help these kind overseeing souls at Citizens for Election Integrity. And it’s good they’ll be around, because we all know that when Pawlenty and Kennedy win next Tuesday, the liberals will cry foul and somebody from their group will be forced to mug for the cameras as they recount the votes by hand.