Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:06:50 -0400 From: "Tyler Durden" <camera_lumina@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Fact checking
How do you start motivating a lazy and apathetic public to learn about their candidates, and vote? Door-to-door campaigns? Talks at the local library? Grocery store posters?
Well, imagine if we could buy votes...I'd bet we could scrounge up a few hundred thousand votes for the price of a few vials of crack. Then imagine we 'elect' bin Laden as a Senator or something with these votes.
I bet people would start voting after that.
If they don't, offer them two vials of crack! More benefits of the vote buying scheme are being discovered daily. Maybe it could be trialled at a local level in the US. You could get it started with one of those proposition thingies you have over there. It shouldn't be difficult - how much would it cost to get someone to sign a petition? cheers, Tim
On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Tim Benham wrote:
I bet people would start voting after that. If they don't, offer them two vials of crack!
It's already being done; it's called "political promises". The candidates are usually pretty high on that stuff. What won't hurt could be making them liable for their promises, as they can be considered to be a contract with the voters. With specific penalties for not delivering the results in the specified timeframe.
Thomas Shaddack (2004-04-28 18:32Z) wrote:
What won't hurt could be making them liable for their promises, as they can be considered to be a contract with the voters. With specific penalties for not delivering the results in the specified timeframe.
Presidents don't pass laws. Presidential campaigns would be reduced to issues that are mutable (vulnerable?) to executive orders. Individual candidates for federal office can't pass laws either. You want to hold a Senator liable when his compatriots (even if they form the majority) don't support everything your senator supports? Nobody who understands the basics of U.S. government construction could possibly believe that a candidate's "promise" is a guarantee. It is merely a statement of ideology. What then, consequences for not "attempting" to effect promises? Who's to judge? -- "Not your decision to make." "Yes. But it's the right decision, and I made it for my daughter." - Bill and Beatrix
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