[ExI] Immaculate Election

[Dave Sill]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 10:31 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
>
> Our system was set up in the days when people traveled aboard a beast, or
> in a conveyance pulled by them, which isn’t fast, so we allowed two and a
> half months to get to the site.  So what’s the big hurry?
>

There are cases to be made for a big hurry: like minimizing the period
during which we don't know winner(s) so people can come to terms with the
results and the transitions can proceed. But, really, I just don't think
there's any good reason that results shouldn't come faster with the
application of modern technology.

Sure, if manually-counted paper ballots were immune to fraud or allegations
of fraud, that would be a good reason to accept a delay. But they're not.

-Dave
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