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From: toby@fritz.UUCP (Toby Gottfried)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Free and Fair Elections
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Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 21:08:17 EST
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The U.S. government is always promoting "free
and fair elections" in countries around the world.
It always seems to me that a prerequisite for
such elections is an informed populace, which is
not always to be found.  However, a recent 
experience shows that these are fewer and farther
between than I thought.

While doing voter registration, it is a sometime
occurrence to be asked, when asking the prospective 
voter for his choice of political party, to be asked 
in return:
		"Which party is Reagan ?"

This should be posted to net.jokes.  Unfortunately,
it is true, which makes it sad.  Given the complexity
of issues facing the electorate today, it would seem
that anyone who doesn't know even the party of the 
president could not have the vaguest idea of what is
going on and who supports what.  

Well, they say a country gets the government it 
deserves.  This may be true.

-- 
Toby Gottfried
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Costa Mesa, CA