Fact checking

[Tyler Durden]

>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.

-TD


>From: Harmon Seaver <hseaver at cybershamanix.com>
>To: cypherpunks at minder.net
>Subject: Re: Fact checking
>Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 07:15:04 -0500
>
>On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 08:20:06PM -0400, Damian Gerow wrote:
> >
> > Thus spake Harmon Seaver (hseaver at cybershamanix.com) [26/04/04 19:25]:
> > :    And the local elections are no prime pickings either, it's crooks 
>to the left
> > : of us, crooks to the right of us, ahead and behind, above and below. 
>Extremely
> > : few real choices. The real problem is -- most people don't vote. What 
>needs to
> > : be done is a real grass roots effort to educate people and get them to 
>vote.
> >
> > So, how does one start a grass roots effort?  I'm Canuck, and I'm not
> > exactly impressed with this year's pickings up North.  My last vote was 
>a
> > vote /against/ the in-office party, not for the party I'd like to see in
> > office.
> >
> > 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?
>
>    All of the above, but mostly door-to-door voter registration. When you
>consider that both klinton and dubbya were elected with only 13%-14% of the
>eligible voters, it wouldn't take all that many new voters to really make a
>difference.
>
>
>
>--
>Harmon Seaver
>CyberShamanix
>http://www.cybershamanix.com
>Hoka hey!
>

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