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. said in 1923; Boris Bazhanov The Memoirs of Stalin's Former Secretary (1992); see Stoppard https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780191843730.001.0001/q-oro-ed5-00010383