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- From: bu008@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Brandon D. Ray)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal,alt.politics.elections,alt.politics.clinton
- Subject: Re: Censoring information , Is it possible tomorrow?
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 08:07:59 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1992Nov16.101653.21824@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> <2AF5B1CB.8811@news.service.uci.edu> <Bx769K.2tG@intcorp.mn.org> <1992Nov10.020925.22734@irscscm.UUCP>
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- In a previous article, wr001b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (william e raftery) says:
-
- >In article <1992Nov10.020925.22734@irscscm.UUCP> rshwake@irscscm.UUCP (Ray Shwake) writes:
- >>In article <Bx769K.2tG@intcorp.mn.org> jdf@intcorp.mn.org (Joel D. Flatt) writes:
- >>>What about Hawaii and Alaska? How about not counting ANY ballots until
- >>>the day after the election?
- >>
- >> Here's another alternative: Two-day voting (Saturday thru Sunday).
- >> This avoids the pre-work after-work crush at the polling place
- >> resulting from workday voting; it provides plenty of opportunity for
- >> west coasters (including those in Alaska and Hawaii) to get their
- >> votes in before east coast counting begins; it even avoids the
- >> Sabbath problem that might be present if only one weekend voting
- >> day were provided.
- >>
- >> Costs might be somewhat higher, but most of those manning the booths
- >> are volunteers anyway.
- >
- >
- > This is my first time posting here or anywhere for that manner, so
- >please bear with me. Wouldn't there need to be a constituional amendment to
- >change the day of voting. I don't have a copy of the Constituion handy, but
- >I seem to remember that the second Tuesday in November is in there
- >somewhere. Besides, even if this happened, we would still have the problem
- >of the media making projections with only 2% of the vote in, or worse, with
- >0% of the vote in and projections via exit polls. The Federal Election
- >Commission can't exactlly tell them to not project for fear of having a
- >"First Amendment-fight-for-your-right-to-project" bloodbath. About the only
- >thing that can be done, short of killing all pollsters (an idea perhaps
- >
- No, the Constitution merely empowers the Congress to set the day for
- federal elections, and specifies that it must be a uniform date throughout
- the country.
-
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- The opinions expressed by the author are insightful, intelligent and very
- carefully thought out. It is therefore unlikely that they are shared by the
- University of Iowa or Case Western Reserve University.
-