If They're Stealing Elections, Why Bother Voting?

A very practical answer to a very sensible question.

by Rod D. Martin
February 15, 2021

Question: Why should we be involved in politics at all if the elections can just be stolen? The fraud must be fixed!

Answer: Because in most of the country you do not have a fraud problem.

Having been intimately involved in trying to overturn the fraud in the last election, I have written unendingly about that. Indeed, a number of us have been writing about the dangers of electronic voting machines for 25 years, and have been largely unheeded by Republicans, who were absolutely oblivious to my warnings (and, ironically, the warnings of a lot of people in the leftwing media, who assumed Trump would use those machines to steal the election, until they decided the things were 100% safe after their own side did it).

However, those problems were (obviously) confined to a handful of jurisdictions. That will change if HR-1 passes, as I have discussed elsewhere. We have to defeat that, and I remain hopeful that we can.

In the meantime, in the vast majority of the …