BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

Jack Lloyd lloyd at randombit.net
Mon Apr 26 08:34:39 PDT 2004


On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 11:18:52AM -0400, sunder wrote:
> Jack Lloyd wrote:
> 
> >Still, I liked this quote: '"I came to vote because wasting one's ballot 
> >in a
> >democracy is a sin," he told the BBC.' Not too common a view in the US 
> >these
> >days, it seems like.
> 
> What do you expect when the previous choice we've had was between Al "I 
> Invented the Innnernet" Gore, and George "Nucular" Dubbya?

AFAIK most local/state elections have even lower turnout than the recent ones
for the prez. Anyway, you could always have voted for Nader/Brown/Tim May/etc.

Hmmm... that's a thought. Tim May as president. Election slogan: "You're *all*
going up the chimneys."





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