As far as I can tell this falls into that massive category of "Twainish"
quotes. Checking Google Books you see a number of citations to Twain saying
this, but they are all in 21st century books, and they probably got this
off the internet. Barbara Schmidt's massive Twain quote repository at
www.twainquotes.com fails to list it, so it is almost certainly apocryphal.

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Mike Pearson <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> =0A=
> =0A=
> Hi=2C Everyone=2C
> Yay=2C or nay?  on this Mark Twain quote? =20
>
>  Someone who likes Mark Twain
> is circulating the quote (shown below)=20
> on a graphic poster on Facebook. =20
>       (When a quotation is part of a graphic poster=2C=20
>  a text search of the web...won't notice how often it appears.)
>
> If Mark Twain said the quote below=2C where did he say it?
> Here's the quote:
> "If voting made any difference=2C they wouldn't let us do it."
>
> I imagine some innocent persons thinking=2C=20
> "Oh no! If Mark Twain says our country's good faith system
>                                           is already gone=2C it must be
> tru=
> e!"
>
> Others may think=2C "Mark Twain -- what a maroon!"
>  I felt that statement is too hard-line.   =20
>  It's one thing to say Congress=20
> and school boards are criminals and idiots=2C which=2C I know=2C he did
> say=
> =2C
> in good humor(?)  It's another thing -- more hardline -- to discourage
> people from voting.
> But=2C did he say it?
> Thanks!
>
> Mike Pearson
> Ellensburg=2C Wash.=20
>
>         =
>



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