"Does It Matter Whether We Vote?" Maybe not...

Then there is the biennial carping about how democracy suffers because so few Americans bother to go to the polls. I live in Belgium, where election turnout is always 100 percent; citizens are required by law to vote. Well, the electorial system here produces just as many nincompoops as the American one -- and the most successful political party has its roots in the SS. So be careful how much turnout you wish for...."

--TCS Daily, Nov 2006, MARTIN FRIDSON, TCS Contributing Writer