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Re: Strange comparisons people are making
- Subject: Re: Strange comparisons people are making
- From: Jeffrey Goldberg <{$news}$@goldmark.org>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:12:28 -0700
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- Reply-To: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey+news@goldmark.org>
On Sep 13, 2001 Dave Roberts <dave@studio-33.co.uk> wrote
in <Rwio$uAYxMo7Ew0F@smartproof.fsnet.co.uk>:
> In article <1NVn7.5377$N3.566616@news1.rdc1.va.home.com>, Havoc <
> >We believe we have the best system of government in the world.
I think Havoc into my kill-file, so I can only quote him indirectly as
above I have above. I remember someone once said, "We have the best
government money can buy."
> Your last elections were a joke.
If anyone is at all interested in my comments about the US electoral
system, you can read
http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/politics/ec-defense.html
Which defends the Electoral College, but calls for Condorcet preference
voting so that we don't have, as you say in you sig,
> 'There's no one left to vote for only fools to vote against.'
> Roy Harper 2000
As for the vote counting and re-counting fiasco, I have another essay
http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/politics/two-principles.html
Which, I believe, says things that others hadn't already been saying.
Note that these were written before the "out-come" had become clear.
-j
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Jeffrey Goldberg
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