Re: Tilting at the Ballot Box

2004-08-31 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:10 AM 8/31/2004, Justin wrote: On 2004-08-30T17:40:25-0700, Steve Schear wrote: > At 05:23 AM 8/30/2004, Justin wrote: > >Are States "geopolitical distortions" as well? Are countries? > > > >If you're going to propose an alternate system, please clearly identify > >1) the voting pool, and 2)

Re: Tilting at the Ballot Box

2004-08-31 Thread Justin
On 2004-08-30T17:40:25-0700, Steve Schear wrote: > At 05:23 AM 8/30/2004, Justin wrote: > >Are States "geopolitical distortions" as well? Are countries? > > > >If you're going to propose an alternate system, please clearly identify > >1) the voting pool, and 2) what they're voting for. If the poo

Re: Tilting at the Ballot Box

2004-08-30 Thread Steve Schear
At 05:23 AM 8/30/2004, Justin wrote: On 2004-08-29T20:55:19-0700, Steve Schear wrote: > I am not discussing presidential elections, this is another matter. Fine. > > Steve Schear wrote: > >> The problem is that use of voting districts seems to have always resulted > >> in gerrymandering in our pol

Re: Tilting at the Ballot Box

2004-08-29 Thread Steve Schear
At 02:49 PM 8/27/2004, Justin wrote: On 2004-08-27T13:14:47-0700, Steve Schear wrote: > At 04:12 AM 8/27/2004, you wrote: As I understand it (I wasn't there, but perhaps you were), their complaint was that their "representatives" weren't from the region they claimed to represent, and that they were

Re: Tilting at the Ballot Box

2004-08-27 Thread Justin
On 2004-08-27T13:14:47-0700, Steve Schear wrote: > At 04:12 AM 8/27/2004, you wrote: > > >On 2004-08-25T11:25:09-0700, Steve Schear wrote: > >> Like a shoemaker who only has hammers in his toolkit, Chaum is trying to > >> fix the wrong problem. The problems with voting in the U.S. aren't > >curr

Re: Tilting at the Ballot Box

2004-08-25 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:18 AM 8/25/2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote: <http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/print/0,17925,683182,00.html> Business 2.0 - Magazine Article - Printable Version - Tilting at the Ballot Box Entrepreneur David Chaum's e-money venture flopped. Now he wants to fix electronic votin

Tilting at the Ballot Box

2004-08-25 Thread R. A. Hettinga
<http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/print/0,17925,683182,00.html> Business 2.0 - Magazine Article - Printable Version - Tilting at the Ballot Box Entrepreneur David Chaum's e-money venture flopped. Now he wants to fix electronic voting. For once, is the brilliant inventor ri