At 9:32 PM -0500 11/7/00, Harmon Seaver wrote:
The real question is why weren't there enough polls to take care of the number of people who want to vote -- it's not just St. Louis, the same thing is happening in many places. In most states, however, the polls are just staying open. If you have a line of people waiting to vote, how dare they close the polls? The people should take the polling officials outside and hang them from the nearest lamppost if they try to close the polls.
And what is wrong with simply closing the lines at the closing time. Put a cop or other official at the end of the line and say: "You arrived at 8:01. Polls are closed. Everyone ahead of you will be allowed in to vote, but you are too late." --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.