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tvamsisai  ·  3879 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My First Vote at the Largest Democratic System

Never heard of a court nullifying someone's vote here in India before, or anywhere for that matter. It is good to vote and keep oneself engaged in the socio-political structure. I somehow gives a -gasm to debate on something very much physical and current.

Agreed! Democracy beats the hell out the alternative most of the time, if not all.





b_b  ·  3879 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ah, let me clarify. It wasn't my vote specifically. In 2000, the people of the US elected Al Gore as president. I voted for him. The Supreme Court then decided that a subset of ballots in Florida didn't count (because of some tortured legal logic), thus allowing George W. Bush to have a majority of votes in Florida. Because of our crazy electoral system, this allowed Bush to win on a technicality, even though Gore had many more total votes (and more in Florida, although some were disallowed, as I stated). It was the kind of thing that the US would have condemned outright had it happened in your country or anywhere else. Here, it was business as usual.