Does your vote count?

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This is part of the beef I have with those who say, go vote to make the difference. Mind you this is not what I was thinking about when it comes to rigged elections or your vote not mattering at all. This plus electronic voting (easily tampered with) can skew results one way or another.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/18/politics/gerrymandering/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

Gerrymandering is the term for the way politicians draw boundary lines for legislative districts in a way designed to keep one party or the other in power in that particular district.

In the last 10 years, 78% of the seats in the U.S. House of Representatives -- almost four out of every five members of Congress -- did not change party hands even once.

In California, with 53 seats -- the most in the nation -- incumbents were kept so safe that only one of those seats changed party control in the past decade.

David Wasserman, redistricting expert for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, says only 20 races for Congress are expected to be tossups in the 2012 election. That's only 20 out of the 435 seats in the House.

"In general elections, it's almost rigged," he said.