It’s 2016 and it’s a voting year. The candidates are in full self promotion mode and hitting the country on tour. This will be the year we find out who our next President will be. If you ask most people on the street, they will talk about the importance of voting and they will tell you that you can’t complain if you don’t vote, but what does that even mean? Those same people will be saying in 2018 that they voted for “the lesser of two evils” and things are still better than they would be if so and so won instead. This is the normal cycle during Presidential terms in the country. What people don’t think about, and don’t count, is the fact that a vote happens before we even go to the polls to pick our next President. The vote on whether or not to even vote.

Voting or not voting is something that’s not even considered in electing a President, but is something that can be as telling as the vote its self. Let’s take a look at some numbers to better illustrate the point. In 2012, there were about 218.4 million people of voting age in the United States (over 18), and there were 129.3 million votes cast in the election of 2012. So what this means is that only 59.2% of the voting populace voted for a President, while 40.8% voted not to vote. To the Statists who believe that you have to vote for a President to have a say in this country, the 40.8% of people that didn’t vote just don’t care about the President and therefor have no right to complain. But what if those who didn’t go to the voting booths were actually casting a vote of no confidence in the system? What if the people who weren’t voting were actually placing their vote against the very system everyone was voting for? You see, there is no option on the ballots that says “I don’t want to be ruled”, or “No Confidence”, and by making those choices disappear, you are forcing people to vote for a system they might not even believe in or want to participate in.

Let’s look at an exaggerated example to show why this voting system is rigged. Let’s say people continue to wake up to what is happening and continue to resent the government. Feeling hemmed up without options to make any kind of change, the 99% decide not to vote, and only the 1% vote. So now, we are in an extreme situation where the very vast majority has not voted for either candidate and instead are boycotting the vote all together, while the 1% still go out and vote as normal….The result? The 1% pick our new President, even though the 99% didn’t want either candidate. Then the system continues as normal. So you see, not voting for a President is actually voting…It’s voting for either no confidence in the system or it’s a statement that the vote for President isn’t worth the time it takes to cast it. When we take away peoples right to cast a vote of no confidence, you take away peoples right to be truly free and truly express their beliefs.

I’ll be posting a video soon where I will explain the paradoxes around voting and counting votes as well as explain how it’s possible for a 3rd party to become President with less than the majority vote in the United States.