We no longer have a voice; No our vote is not always counted. Example 30 minutes after the voting polls closed here in Washington State incumbent Marie Cantwell was declared the winner. Were all the votes counted NO, Were all the precinct votes in yet. NO. She was declared the winner simply because King county has almost the same amount of voters as the rest of the State. And because King county primarly voted for her, She was declared the winner. To heck with the rest of the state. Why vote when all the votes were not yet counted or in. If someone is declared the winner before all the votes counted. We the people should not allow ANY canidate to be declared a winner until EVERY single legitimate vote is counted. I don't care if does take 7 days. So be it. We the people should in a presidental election NOT have an electorial college voting for us. We are quite able to vote for ourselves. We the people should not allow the race to be called until after the polls have closed on the West coast. And all the votes on the west coast counted even if it does take a week. We should allow our overseas servicemen and women's votes to count as well. The ballots are never mailed out in time for them to recieve them and get them back on time. This is wrong and too often their votes do not get counted. There should plain pure not be any Primary elections. Let the best man or woman win period. We don't need those primaries, they cost us time and money. And too often the BEST man or woman does not win. Washington state up until the last election before this one was allowed to vote independant and cross party lines in the primary now they insist we choose a party. That IS NOT FREEDOM. Ever since we became a state we were allowed to vote independant and suddenly because Christine Gregorie wants to be Govenor so BAD she will do almost anything to win, including commit fraud and cheat. The Demoncrates decided that Washington state residents had been voting illegally for 100 years. What happened to states rights here? We here on the East side of the state and many of the West side lower counties do not like the shenanigans that now insist we have to choose a party or our vote is not counted in the primaries. I am NOT Republican, I am NOT Democrat, I am not Libetarion, Green party or some other party. I prefer to cross party lines and vote for whom the I feel is the best canidate. We the People should not allow mud slinging, back biting, back stabbing, slanderous ad campaigns, We should insist that the canidates tell us what they plan to do for us better or harder than their opponent. Not have to listen to the canidates trash one another's reputation. That does NOT impress me or help me in any way to want to vote for any of them. We also should not be subjected to 10-20 calls a week to our private telephone lines of one canidate slandering another. I don't like my message phone being filled up with these UNIMPORTANT calls. My husband is a substitute teacher and he needs the lines kept open we don't need someone begging for a vote and costing him work. It is time we take a voice and take back our country to be controlled of, by and for the people, IF it is not too late and Les Porter is not wrong. Voting does not count if your vote is not counted and a race is called before all the votes are in and counted which has happened way to often over the past 20 years of elections. It is wrong.