[TriLUG] OT: OpenVote

[William Sutton]

To emphasize Steve's point:  Look at how day trading affects the stock 
market.  It's a game of psychology.  Do we want to start trading election 
futures?

-- 
William Sutton


On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 sholton at mindspring.com wrote:

> Pat Regan <thehead at patshead.com> writes:
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> >If you can make voting easy enough that people can do it from home would
> >bring us to the point where we it would be possible to have a direct,
> >instead of a representative, democracy.  Election day could be every day.
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> How much time did you spend, for the most recent once-every-four-years
> vote researching the #1 issue in that election? How about the #2 issue?
> 
> I'd see the 'election day every day' world as either a world where no one bothers
> to research anything before firing off a vote or a world paralyzed by an 
> electorate that pases laws today based on the color of Katie Couric's blouse
> and rescinds them tomorrow on the forecast of light rain..
> 
> It's perhaps worth study, but I'll venture not likely to happen in my
> lifetime.
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