when I was a lib I remember hearing the quote attributed to Stalin along the lines of "it doesn't matter who votes, it matters who counts the votes" and thinking he was revealing his cunning plans
“As long as I count the Votes, what are you going to do about it. say?” — attributed to William M. “Boss” Tweed in Thomas Nast cartoon, 7 October 1871).
“‘I care not who casts the votes of a nation, provided I can count them,’ Napoleon failed to remark.” — New York Times editorial (26 May 1880).
“There’s more to an election than mere votin’, my boy, for as an eminent American once said: ‘I care not who casts the votes of a nation if they’ll let me make the count.‘” — from Uncle Henry, a novel by George Creel, 1922.
“It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting, Archie says.” — from Jumpers, a play by Tom Stoppard, 1972.
“Indeed, you won the elections, but I won the count.” — Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza (1896-1956), Guardian (London), 17 June 1977.
when I was a lib I remember hearing the quote attributed to Stalin along the lines of "it doesn't matter who votes, it matters who counts the votes" and thinking he was revealing his cunning plans
even libshit site snopes gets to the bottom of that one nowadays, and the other quotes are interesting: