Votes and the counting thereof
Jun. 20th, 2004 06:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
womzillaA couple of people posted links to the remarkable anti-Diebold campaign posters. Go read them, if you haven't.
The first one has a quote which I have on a t-shirt in a different form--my shirt says, "Those who cast the votes decide nothing; those who count the votes decide everything." and attributes it to Stalin. The poster gives it as "It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes." and notes that it's apocryphal, which I'm sorry to discover, since it was such a wonderful pairing of sentiment and source.
There's a good discussion of the quote on About.com which notes a good possible source:
"It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting." --Tom Stoppard, Jumpers, 1972.
The first one has a quote which I have on a t-shirt in a different form--my shirt says, "Those who cast the votes decide nothing; those who count the votes decide everything." and attributes it to Stalin. The poster gives it as "It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes." and notes that it's apocryphal, which I'm sorry to discover, since it was such a wonderful pairing of sentiment and source.
There's a good discussion of the quote on About.com which notes a good possible source:
"It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting." --Tom Stoppard, Jumpers, 1972.
