Let's say that our worst fears are true, and the voting machines are rigged. Couple that with a co-opted media, and the idea of doing away with exit-polling, and what do we have?

We have a permanent Republican majority, and no way to prove otherwise.

Everyone assumes in the back of their mind that we would be able to prove Republicans stealing the elections, but without proper, reliable exit polling, there's no evidence. There wouldn't even be a need for the contest to be close-with a compliant media, they could just say it was close, and that would be it. 100% of the country could vote for the opposition, and we would never be able to tell. the Democratic party could easily just be a cardboard-cutout of a political party, a permanent party out of power in opposition.

In 2004, the exit polling said that the election should have had very different results. Exit polling has always been the most accurate check on election manipulation. We even backed one side over the other in the Ukraine, based on exit polling.

So the media threw out the exit polling. They didn't even give substantive reasons-they just said it wasn't reliable.

How do we know the same thing won't happen in November? How do we know that we will kick the Republicans asses, like we hope we will?

How do we even know there's a real Democratic party anymore?