<bq href="http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/16590" author="Howard Zinn" caption="Election Madness" source="ZNet">This seizes the country every four years because we have all been brought up to believe that voting is crucial in determining our destiny, that the most important act a citizen can engage in is to go to the polls and choose one of the two mediocrities who have already been chosen for us. It is a multiple choice test so narrow, so specious, that no self-respecting teacher would give it to students.</bq>