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2016 Postmortem

edcantor

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4. I can't really see any rationale for it either

Reply to DonCoquixote (Reply #1)

Sun May 27, 2012, 01:39 PM

May 2012

Of course, I can live with it, and really would prefer an auditable paper based system of voting, where no-one can tamper with the machines, where people can vote anytime in the first 7 days of November, and where people are fined .1% extra in income taxes for not having voted. A corporation would be limited to giving only the same amount that a human being can give to a candidate, and the same amount to any one PAC.

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