At 8:57 PM -0800 11/8/00, Ernest Hua wrote:
> > There cannot be a re-vote of the County, or even of the entire State,
>> as this would distort the forces acting on the electorate in a way
>> never seen before. The Palm County voters would know _they_ would be
>> electing the next president. Billions of dollars would be spent
>> trying to buy each and every voter.
>
>"distort the forces ..." Lord! No! Don't let them do that!
>
>Geez, Tim. What happened to personal responsibility? Who gives two
>bits what "forces" will be upon them. They will ultimately still
>have to cast a vote which they were casting just days earlier. Who
>cares if idiots spend billions to sway a few thousand votes. That's
>THEIR problem. It's free speech, as you have claimed in the past.
You're a complete idiot if you don't understand this point.
I made my points, briefly, above. This would not be a matter of the
same voters simply recasting their same ballots. Think about it.
(I'm not convinced you can, Ernest. In reading hundreds of your posts
I have concluded that you're just part of Vinge's "Slow Zone.")
--Tim May
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