Different standards aren't necessarily bad either. Local jurisdictions have a substantial amount of leeway in ballot design in Florida, which, Democratic partisan protests notwithstanding, is probably a reasonable thing. In other areas of the law, they have the opportunity to craft laws and rules that are more suitable to their area of the country. Local control and competition among different standards set by different local communities generally is a good thing. If nothing else, it's the way the U.S. political system was set up to work. -Declan On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 11:17:15PM -0500, Robert Guerra wrote:
In article <001c01c062e0$5db95fc0$0100a8c0@golem>, "Me" <commerce@home.com> wrote:
is there any benefit to the 'canadian system' above it's lack of lawyers?
Having a plethora of different standards sure doesn't help.. In Canada, and other countries there is a uniform ballot across the country..something that hopefully will be introduced into the USA real soon.
i dont see why any of these methods are inherently better/safer/more accurate than those used in florida.
Counting a "X"'s I would think is easier than counting chads on punch card ballots
speaking of canadian elections, its too bad the canadian alliance didnt get elected and revoke bill c-68 g, eh?
Polls before the election were correct and the alliance didn't win. If somone wants to revoke bill c-68 they will have to wait 5 years until the next elecion.
BTW. Many thanks to those of you who have replied to my earlier messages on this topic. I hope to answer you within a day or so.
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