BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

[Tyler Durden]

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

Wasn't there something close a few years ago? I remember a write-in campaign 
to get "Unabomber" Ted Kascinsky elected as President.

-TD



>From: Jack Lloyd <lloyd at randombit.net>
>To: sunder <sunder at sunder.net>
>CC: cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net
>Subject: Re: BBC on all-electronic Indian elections
>Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 11:34:39 -0400
>
>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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