At 07:46 PM 11/10/00 -0500, William H. Geiger III wrote:
Eliminate them completely would be an even simpler solution. Too many people give elections the proper respect that they deserve. You go and plan your vacation at voting time too bad you made your choice. The only ones that have any legitimate excuse for not being in the town that they are registered to vote is those that are either on military deployment or in the diplomatic corps. Polling stations can be set up on military bases and US Embassies to accommodate the majority that fall into those catagories.
Oh, nonsense. Sometimes you've got business to do. Sometimes your family is sick. Sometimes you're sick. Oregon's vote-by-mail thing was interesting, if a bit slow, though as with the Internet, it offers a range of choices for voting early and often that differ from the go-to-the-polls ones. BTW, did you leave out a "don't" in that second sentence? Or did you mean people really *do* give government the (dis)respect it deserves. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639