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From: simon@cheshire (Thor Simon)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Cabal
Summary: Democratic Government
Keywords: newgroup, vote, control
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Date: 9 Apr 89 00:10:20 GMT
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  Here's an idea I would have thought would have been thrown around before 
(and please excuse my mistake if it has):

  A
  Democratically
  Elected
  Government

  For example:  Once a year, nominations are held, followed by elections.  Any
person placing their name on the "ballot", to be posted in news.admin o
perhaps "news.elections"?  And recieving a predetermined number of nominating
signatures would automatically be placed on an election ballot.  This would
be followed by an election, perhaps organized by congressional district, state,
or other geographical distribution.  Of course, all votes and nominations would
have to be reasonably screened (i.e. I couldn't vote from X.cs.coulmbia.edu, 
X1.cs.columbia.edu, X3.cs.columbia.edu, etc., and perhaps not from sites with
feeds from coulmbia (e.g. my Amiga if I were running UUCP)) This group would 
vote on newsgroup creations, etc., perhaps presided over by an elected leader
with overrideable veto power.  Comments?

Thor