At 10:50 AM -0500 11/8/00, William H. Geiger III wrote:
IMHO if the courts order a new election in this county then they need to do it for the entire state as the electorial college is winner take all and it would be unjust to allow this one county to determine how these delegates vote.
Well, they spent $3 billion on this election, I hear. A new vote in this county would let them spend another billion or two, just for that one county. You are right that if they order a new election in that county--which is not beyond the pale, as the judges are pols--they should order a new election in the entire state. And even that would not be "fair," of course. This may actually be the event which accelerates a move to electronic voting. Which is not an unmitigated good, despite the high "Wired" score it would undoubtedly garner. --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.