I think you got that messed up a little.
It's usually given as "It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes."
But that is not quite what Stalin actually is quoted , by one of his secretaries, Boris Bazhanov in Memoirs of Stalin's Former Secretary, as saying, (except in Russian of course).
"You know, comrades, that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how."
I was attempting to make the connection between the vote and what Stalin referred to as the “how” of counting the vote. The census determines districts and, ultimately, the electoral college. These are designed not by actual voters but by a political process determining the weight of the individual’s vote.
Now that 0 has assumed power over the “how” he is in precisely the position Stalin referred to as he who determines how the vote is counted. 0’s mastery of Stalin’s political machinery is obvious by his obvious attempt to control the electorate. If 0 can move quickly it will be impossible to elect conservatives in any significant numbers by the end of 2010.
By his appointment of ever more czars, Congress is discovering that 0 does not need their law making prowess to steer the government. This is a tyrant in the making and we do not have much time left to stop him.