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

Sat Aug 26 04:12:24 UTC 2006

For dear subscribers:
please discuss the democracy in general in ANOTHER mailinglist, and
put your idea not here directly, but the specific page on meta. There
a discussion/presentation of opinion already has begun, I don't want
to see this discussion split here and there.

Effe, can you please c&p your postings to that page? If you have done
it already, please forgive my hasteness.

On 8/26/06, Jeffrey V. Merkey <jmerkey at wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
> Ray Saintonge wrote:
>
> >Jeffrey V. Merkey wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>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
> >>
> >>
> >>from every social class and range of offenses have the right to vote
> >
> >
> >>(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).
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >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.
> >
> >
>
> Probably a good topic to avoid.
>
> >
> >
> >>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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >Single sign-on will make the process easier.  All individuals, rather
> >than all communities should vote.
> >
> >
> Thanks for the correction.
>
> Jeff
>
> >Ec
> >
> >
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