I'm still missing the link between a vote (or non-vote) and identification.
How do you know who is casting the compulsory vote? And if the voter lies
about that, how will you prove otherwise. (Questions I throw perhaps
illogically under the title of "enforcement.")
I can see where it might resolve problems of capture. The idea of being
obligated to vote in a campaign in which one has no interest might,
however, lead to sales of votes or indifferent voting which might be just
as unauthentic as a captured election. Interesting possibilities, though.
Requires some thought.
Diane Cabell
MAC
Kerry Miller wrote:
> Diane,
>
> > > perhaps the practice of compulsory voting is the
> > > way to go...
> >
> > How ever would this be enforced?
> >
>
> I should have thought the first question is whether it solves or
> avoids the problem of fraudulent namebasing (either multiple votes
> or bogus addresses) which keeps coming up as we try to design
> toplevel structures and only later looking for their constituencies
> underneath.
>
> Admittedly, the issue of enforcement does seem to go along with
> that perspective...
>
> But perhaps you misunderstand the concept. 'Compulsory' simply
> means that there is a penalty for failure.
>
> ------
> Greg asked,
>
> > What would you do in the case of people who refuse to vote? If people
> > disagree with all choices offered, don't they have the right to
> > abstain?
>
> Whether penalties should be visited in terms of rights to domain
> names, or cost of registration renewal, or the number of virtual
> machines one might host is not my concern, but rather whether the
> missing link in all this discussion isnt simply the use of 'quid pro
> quo' as a working concept (at *all levels).
>
> Do you mean a right to abstain from decision-making, but still
> capitalize on the service that results? Sure, why not? We could
> even designate a .kid TLD for them, with its own moot-council
> (IKANN?), where they could practice getting organized, learn to be
> responsible, and so on.
>
> kerry
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