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From: conte@crest.crhc.uiuc.edu (Tom Conte)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Let's get moving gang!!!
Keywords: Implementation, Network Novelties
Message-ID: <1990Aug28.195810.22359@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 28 Aug 90 19:58:10 GMT
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In article <737@primerd.PRIME.COM>, milgr@teapot.prime.COM (Marc
Milgram) writes:
> In article <7686@helios.TAMU.EDU>, jsaxon@cs.tamu.edu (James B Saxon) writes:
> |>Consider the power of an overnight call to rally, e-mail style...
> |>
> |>Consider voting directly through the computer at all levels of
> |>	government... (what electorate?)
> |>
> Most people have neither the interest not the inclination to do the research
> for every vote carried out at the federal and state levels.  However, this
> might be a good alternative method for writing one's representatives in
> congress, thereby expanding the mediums by which one can communicate with
> congress.
> 
Just an aside, but _Hyperion_ by Dan Simmons suggests a merged media/electronic
electorate that has one vote in the senate, which is aparently composed of one
house (US Senate-like).  This entity, the AllThing, has voluntary
membership.  If
you are interested in voting, you spend time listening, arguing with other
`tuned-in' members, and voting. If you don't care, you ignore what goes on
and rely on your elected senator's vote.  The feeling that someone is making
decisions without you having a say compells people to voluntarily enroll in the
AllThing.

Imagine `In response to the distinguished Usenet Senator, I have no
recollection
of such a meeting...'

> |>--
> |> ---- \ / ----	  /--------------------------------------------\  James
> Bennett Saxon
> |>|   O|	 |   O|	  |  "I aught to join the club and beat you    | 
> Visualization Laboratory
> |>|    |   |    |   |   over the head with it." -- Groucho Marx  | 
> Texas A&M University
> |> ----     ----   <---------------------------------------------/ 
> jsaxon@cssun.tamu.edu
>                    
> 
> Marc Milgram
> milgr@teapot.prime.com

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