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- From: adams@spss.com (Steve Adams)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ,alt.activism,soc.culture.usa,alt.amateur-comp,misc.misc
- Subject: Re: Last Minute Write-in Candidate for US President
- Message-ID: <adams.721935594@spssig>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 17:39:54 GMT
- References: <1992Nov9.072541.16791@u.washington.edu> <1992Nov3.032744.431@news.ysu.edu> <1e6073INN86b@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- bm665@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jay Robert Hauben) writes:
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- >In a previous article, tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) says:
- >
- >>ag173@yfn.ysu.edu (Jay Hauben) writes:
- >>
- >> All over the country, people write-in "Ronda Hauben".
- >>
- >> "Ronda Hauben" wins!
- >>
- >> And then hundreds of people named Ronda Hauben claim that
- >> they have been elected!
- >>
- > Thank you for pointing out this possible bug in our
- >experiment to improve the political process in the US.
- >
- > The write-in, on the surface, might seem more appropriate
- >for more local an election. But Usenet News and internetworking
- >may make the write-in a viable and especially democratic
- >political form even for national elections. Therefore it is
- >necessary that we get the bugs out of the process.
- >
- > Can anyone out there suggest a fix that will allow the
- >genuine write-in candidate to be identified either on the write-
- >in ballot or after the election or both?
- >
- > The American people have given the world the personal computer and
- >Usenet News. We surely are capable of creating a better political
- >process than the one we have just gone through.
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- Illinois has a solution for this already....if you write someone in, you
- are supposed to list their address on the ballot with the vote....
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- -Steve
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