[Foundation-l] Open question from an Election Official: on voters' elibiglity

Sat Aug 26 03:40:40 UTC 2006

Ray Saintonge wrote:

>Jeffrey V. Merkey wrote:
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>>In America, only convicted felons loose the right to vote, and only in 
>>certain states. People on probation have the right to vote, and people 
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>>from every social class and range of offenses have the right to vote 
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>>(except for convicted felons). No "Concensus" of citizens can strip from 
>>any individual the right to vote in this country. This is because we are 
>>an "enlightened society", not the forum of the Roman Senate where 
>>splinter groups assassinate the emperor and and citizen or senator with 
>>views we don't like, or the Court of Queen Elizabet in the 1500's where 
>>you could loose your head for wearing the wrong color clothes on the 
>>wrong day or criticize the queen. I thank God America doesn't run this 
>>way, or most countries in modern times (except for a few in the middle 
>>eastern countries).
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>But even the United States has a minimum voting age, and a waiting 
>period before new immigrants can become citizens.  I appreciate your 
>scare quotes around "enlightened society".  I'm sure that a modern 
>Senate and its parties have more sophisticated ways of performing 
>political assassinations without getting into the very messy business of 
>physical assassinations.  America runs this way when it's running other 
>countries.  The last democratically elected ruler of Iran was 
>assasinated by the Americans.
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Probably a good topic to avoid.

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>>Banned users from the 
>>whole of Wikimedia should not vote. Banned users from a particular 
>>project should vtoe just not on that project. This isn't an article for 
>>deletion, it's board members for the community. All the communities 
>>should vote. 
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>Single sign-on will make the process easier.  All individuals, rather 
>than all communities should vote.
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Thanks for the correction.

Jeff

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