From: Spike (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Wed May 28 2003 - 00:54:54 MDT
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-extropians@extropy.org [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]
On Behalf Of Lee Daniel Crocker
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 3:38 PM
To: extropians@extropy.org
Subject: Re: Electronic voting
> (spike66@attbi.com <spike66@attbi.com>):
>
>> Any citizen leery of the cops or not wanting the hassle
>> forbidden to vote?
> Not at all. Citizens leery of cops and not wanting the
> hassle may *choose* not to vote (which is fine with me)
> but they are not *forbidden* to vote. Convicted felons
> and wanted criminals would be forbidden to vote.
>
> Of course the felons could move to California and still
> vote, as often as they wanted.
Let's not forget that some of those folks not wanting to
encounter police merely have arrest warrants based on
suspicion, and have not yet been convicted of any crime,
or else have warrants for things that the state really has
no business prosecuting...
OK Lee, I hear you. I too recognize that the system
sweeps up far more than should be excluded from voting.
I wonder what would happen if they were to hire three
or four husky thugs to hang out at the polling place,
or get a busload of will-work-for-fooders?
spike
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