Joseph Stalin, the former communist dictator of the Soviet Union, was once famously quoted as saying this: “Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.”
There is some debate about whether that quote was really from Stalin or from someone else in the Communist Party, but regardless, that appeared to be the general sentiment regarding elections within communist Russia.
And you know what, it appears that there are people in America who are taking this advice to heart—specifically, by working overtime not to influence who people vote for, but rather, how the underlying election system actually operates….