I am steeling myself...

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14. Unless you consider voter suppression and buying elections (Citizens United).

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AND stealing elections as well. If you can rig the game, then you win every time, even if you're severely outnumbered. At least for long enough to do some serious long-term damage.

Never forget what Mad-Eye Moody warned Harry Potter: "CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!!!"

And we HAVE TO get out the vote. In overwhelming numbers. Numbers so large that the election can't easily be stolen. Numbers so large they out-shout all the spin.

And besides:
We also have to help, in whatever state it's needed, to make sure that EVERYONE has the proper legally-recognized-at-the-polling-place ID. In whatever permutation it's acquired. If you have to drive somebody to and from some office or help somebody pay one of those ridiculous, usurious fees, do it if you're able. EVERY approach aimed at preventing someone from voting, if they're entitled to vote, Needs. To. Be. Fought. And rather vigorously, I'm afraid.

I mean, shit, the bad guys have entire think tanks full of people who do nothing all day long but look for loopholes and other ways to get around the rules, rig the game, and scam the system. Battalions of oppositional research nerds and "College republi-CON"-types that grow up into lee atwaters and kkkarl roves. That's all on their side and it's very well-funded as we know.