[extropy-chat] Re: Politics: US talks of suspending elections

[Harvey Newstrom]

On Monday, July 12, 2004, at 07:26 pm, Adrian Tymes wrote:

> Hmm.  Not that I think it's a serious proposal yet,
> but...is anyone else getting eerie echoes to a recent
> Patriot Act amendment vote, where the House
> Republicans changed the voting rules by extending the
> voting period from its usual 15 minutes to 35, so they
> could persuade Representatives to switch their vote
> until they had enough to defeat the amendment?

Yes.  And the voting rules in Florida which were changed.  And the 
voting machines which are being put in all over the country.  The rules 
of how we vote are being rewritten by one political party.

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Harvey Newstrom, CISSP, CISA, CISM, IAM, IBMCP, GSEC
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