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From: jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Where have No votes gotten us?
Summary: A Major Difference!
Message-ID: <4399@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 5 Jun 89 11:50:03 GMT
References: <371@odi.ODI.COM> <3400@looking.on.ca> <372@odi.ODI.COM> <736@corpane.UUCP>
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In article <736@corpane.UUCP>, sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
> 
> Someone mentioned that [No votes] are not needed as 100 yes votes are needed
> ...

> It's more than just that. How would you like it if someone told you that
> Quayle wants to be President? And you couldn't vote against him but you could
> vote for him. And if he got over 100 votes he would be president. See the 
> flaw?
> 
I see the flaw in your analogy.  If Quayle got to be president,
we couldn't decline to accept the consequnces, at least not without
going to jail for nonpayment of taxes, nonregistration for
selective slavery, etc., or a second major war over secession.
If Proposed Newsgroup X gets created, one's site can refuse 
to carry it, and one can unsubscribe to it, all without either
prison sentences or Gettysburg II.

Jeff Daiell

Nothing in the above should be construed as *opposing* nonpayment
of taxes, nonregistration for selective slavery, or Independence
for any given member of The Union.

-- 
  If a hungry man has water, and a thirsty man has bread,
  Then if they trade, be not dismayed, they both come out ahead.

                                   -- Don Paarlberg