That’s what happened in Tamarac, Florida, on Wednesday. Apparently even the poll workers weren’t motivated enough to step into the voting booths to register their opinions on annexing a nearby neighborhood. Perhaps they sense that the system is rigged against them anyway, so their votes really wouldn’t matter in the end. If city officials really want to annex the neighborhood and the majority of voters had opposed it, would the city have found some way of doing it anyway? The AP report says they “could take another approach to annexing the area” since the election was a bust, but don’t think for a moment that they wouldn’t have taken another approach just the same if the election hadn’t turned out the way they wanted. It’s happened plenty of times in plenty of places. Here in Pittsburgh, for example, there was a referendum on taxpayer funding of a new stadium for the Pirates. The voters overwhelmingly rejected it, having been assured that there was no “Plan B” if the measure failed, after which local “public servants” enacted “Plan B,” which did the exact opposite of what the voters had demanded.

If enough people in enough cities started following the lead of the citizens of Tamarac, perhaps the system would finally be exposed as the fraud that it is.