At 10:10 PM -0500 11/7/00, David Honig wrote:
At 09:31 PM 11/7/00 -0500, Tim May wrote: If they work hours such
that they cannot be at the polling places during these hours, they obtain absentee ballots. Or they take personal time off of work. Or they go in an hour later. Etc.
California is reported to have 20% absentee ballots, see the latimes.com
Exactly. There are _many_ ways to vote. The polls are open for 13 hours, 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Claims that "working people" can't get to the polls are ludicrous. If anything, in fact, it's the Silicon Valley programmer who may have a hard time getting away from the office during those hours. In any case, the claim that St. Louis needed to have its polling hours extended into the late evening because Latisha LaFonda was incorrectly registered and couldn't vote at 10 _a.m._ is what makes it all so ludicrous. "We want the polling places to be open until at least 2:30 a.m. a half hour after the bars close. We gots to be thinkin' 'bout our con-stit-a-ents!" --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.