In the GE, do our votes get counted?

[TreasonousBastard]

20. Every election this question comes up...

and there is no good answer.

For Presidential elections, your individual vote is almost meaningless. Because of the way the Electoral College works, it is possible for a candidate to get more popular votes, but still lose in Electoral votes. That doesn't mean don't vote, it just means it works weirdly.

Local and state elections? It depends on who's running things. Historically, such things voting machines in the Chicago river and spoiled paper ballots in some Southern states have been pretty much the norm. Both parties cheat, so you can't blame it on just one.

I have to say that as far as I know, my county is pretty good about running honest elections. We use scanned paper ballots and nobody's found a problem yet. Other counties, I can't say, but do what you can in yours to get involved.

That thing about not counting mail-in ballots... If there are 100 mailed in ballots and one guy is 500 votes ahead, there really is no reason to count them.