It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

Obviously some of the votes that he might wish he hadn't cast that I've heard about surprise me because they don't represent American mainstream values,

As long as I count the votes, what are YOU going to do about it?

The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind. A man ought to vote with the whole of himself. The question is not so much whether only a minority of the electorate votes. The point is that only a minority of the voter votes.

I'll count the votes and see 22 , and (Morgan) will claim it was 27.