[extropy-chat] If the nonUS citizens voted in Nov 2 elections...

[Amara Graps]

>--- Amara Graps <amara at amara.com> wrote:

>>  "US policy now affects every citizen on the planet. So we should all
>>  have a say in who gets to the White House"
>>
>>  by Jonathan Freedland
>>  The Guardian, 22 September 2004

Martin Striz:
>So can we vote on Al Qaeda leadership?

... If they claimed to have a democracy, then why not?
(Last I heard, they were making no such claim)

It would be useful to know what rough number are the Al Qaeda,
and then compare to the population of the rest of the world.

...

You may or may not have heard that the US Federal Government has begun
restricting international access to the site to help overseas absentee
voters cast ballots on this upcoming Federal Election.

Here is a group that has worked around that:

http://register.verifiedvoting.org/

(so at least overseas US citizens can vote in the US elections)

Amara


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