CDR:Re: The US mis-election - an oportunity for e-voting..

[Declan McCullagh]

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 at golem>, "Me" 
> <commerce at 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.
> 
> regards
> 
> robert
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