But I always have to wonder about these statistics and how accurate they are.

Several elections back here in Maryland, there were reports of numerous "dead" voters voting. Cries of election fraud from the loser. Turns out, almost every one of the "invalid" votes were legitimate voters, who nearly had their votes discounted. Why? They committed the "fraud" of having similar names to deceased people.

Took a lot of digging through the news stories to find out what the real story was.

It was a British politician who said "War is too important to be left to the Genreals" (He was referring to the shitty job Haig was doing as commander-in-chief of the BEF during World War I).

As true as that is, it must also be remembered that politics are too important to be left to the politicians.

And news stories are too important to be left to the news media.

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