Hmmmmmmmmm, not much different from the death lottery is it? About the same result all around.. We could always make it a limited 4 year term and when the term is over, the winner has to serve in the military... I'm starting to like this idea! Now that would be fitting! :o) By then the military would just be starting to feel the effects of the policies set by the winner and the winner would reap the 'benefits.' He he he!

Tracy

>Tracy;
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>I think we should do away with individuals voting for any reason. Less than a majority of qualified voters actually vote. Not all voters understand the issues being presented before them. Not all votes are counted.
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>It should be up to computers to select the best candidate or proposition being placed before the populace. Now who should do the programming and how will data be entered and validated for this just cause? What will the deciding factors be to select a given choice?
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>Perhaps an even better method of choosing a candidate would be to use a modified “Lotto” approach. In this case the name of each qualified candidate will be placed on one ping-pong ball. One ball will be allowed to fall into a tube and the winner will be announced. We can then just follow the bouncing ball until the next “election”.
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>Regardless of the method used to select the winner we are still faced with "tweedle dee, tweedle dumb, and all the other wonderful choices". This is what makes democracy such an idyllic form of government. A government for the idiots, and by the idiots. We get what we deserve.
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>>Hi Jim,
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>>>Neat cartoon, probably reflecting what went on.
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>>>So I'll assume that if any (military or otherwise) votes only get counted after electoral decisions are made, that's fine with you.
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>>No, it's not fine at all. I don't know of ANYONE, military or civilian, that would bother to vote if they knew that their votes didn't count. Nor do I know of anyone that thinks that it is ok for absentee voting to NOT count. I cannot believe that anyone would support military going overseas and risking their lives and not having their votes count back home. I believe most voters honestly believe (based on my experience and talking with others) that their votes do count and 'IF' the number of absentee votes would actually change the election results, the votes would do so and the winner would be the candidate that won due to all votes including absentee votes. Now that would have to have an impact on the electoral college for it to actually happen of course.
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>>>As an outsider it would represent a strange practise if true (that schedules for vote certifications, and such, can almost certainly cause exclusion of SOME votes, military or otherwise).
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>>>>http://www.strangecosmos.com/view.asp?PicID=574
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>>>>>Knowing that you were in the military for many years, what did you think about the handling of votes by military personnel as came to light during the Florida fiasco?
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>>>>>When I heard some of the details I sure got to thinking that those votes likely never are counted, at least NOT in time to impact any decision dates surrounding election procedures.
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>>>>>>http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2000/elecpop.htm