Adam wrote: Well Sara, you can also have direct democracy on the ballot with early > voting and absentee voting. Just saying. >
The challenge with open town meeting and early/absentee voting has always been: whatever is being voted can be amended on the fly by resident vote at the town meeting. You submit your early/absentee vote for option "Q", and you later find that after *vigorous* debate at TM, Q was amended to include (say) a heliport for coal-powered helicopters, or a town-wide pneumatic tube system. One "see most of you tomorrow" resident's view, -andy https://payne.org/lt-disclaimer/
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