Joseph Stalin Quotes
The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
Although this is generally attributed to Stalin, there is no writing of his that has the quotation. So some believe that this quotation is apocryphal.
Joseph Stalin Quoted in America, Your Election Is Not Rigged The New York Times, October 29, 2016
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More than 80 voting machines in Detroit malfunctioned on Election Day resulting in ballot discrepancies in 59% of precincts that raise questions about the reliability of the 2016 Presidential Vote in Michigan. The state of Michigan, like many other states, would not approprate sufficient funds toi keep election equipment properly maintained. What was an irony about the 2016 Election errors in Detroit, the Michican State Law actually forbade doing manual recounts. Polioticans throughout America during that decade had been passing all kinds of legislation to prevent voting by people why were ineligible (a problem which was almsot non existant) and would do very little to get their own election commissions the equipment and personnel that they needed to avoid vote counting errors.
Florida’s vote counting system was extremely primitive and highly subjective, and no one could really ever tell whether Al Gore or George W. Bush ever won the state whose electoral votes determined the election of 2000. The Supreme Court finally decided that Bush would be president, but no one wanted such a situation to ever happen again. Blackwell had better technology in Ohio in the next election but Ohio various techniques were used to keep some Blacks from voting.
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Georgian revolutionary and the ruler of the Soviet Union from 1927 until 1953. He served as both General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1941–1953). Despite initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he ultimately consolidated power to become the Soviet Union's de facto dictator by the 1930s. A communist ideologically committed to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, Stalin formalized these ideas as Marxism–Leninism while his own policies are known as Stalinism.
