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From: vrs@littlei.UUCP (Vincent R. Slyngstad)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Congress considering changes to Daylight Savings
Message-ID: <177@uvrs.littlei.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Nov-87 18:00:28 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 15 18:00:28 1987
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In article <7708@reed.UUCP> horton@reed.UUCP (Nike Horton) writes:
...
>time in synch.  The background of the bill concerns the disparity in
>poll closing times during presidential elections, which caused problems in
>1980, when the news media predicted a winner before the polls had closed
>on the west coast.  This may or may not have caused people not to vote,
>seeing that their vote had no effect since the result was already known.
>Unfortunately, fixing the problem is not easy.  Muzzling the press is quite
>rightfully looked down upon by the ACLU and others.  Keeping the polls open
>late on the east coast is expensive, and closing them early on the west
>isn't fair to people who have to work.  So those clever legislators of
>ours came up with a new twist:
...

Isn't a better solution to this problem to stagger the COUNTING rather than
the voting?  That way the press gets to release the information as soon as
it exists, but the government can assure fairness (assuming for the moment
that fairness is a goal of the government)?

Go, inews! Go!
Go, inews! Go!
Go, inews! Go!
Go, inews! Go!
Go, inews! Go!
Go, inews! Go!
Go, inews! Go!
-- 
Vincent R. Slyngstad
UNIX Evaluation Engineering
Intel Corporation (littlei!vrs)