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

[Brian Lee]

I think one of the important priciples of democracy is that only members of 
a given set vote as they have a vested interest. It's rather foolish to 
allow non-citizens to vote as their concerns are unlikely to coincide with 
the concerns of the society holding the vote.

We'd get all sorts of wackiness like landslide elections that redistribute 
all wealth away from US/Europe into poorer countries, etc.

BAL

>From: Amara Graps <amara at amara.com>
>To: wta-talk at transhumanism.org, extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
>Subject: [extropy-chat] If the nonUS citizens voted in Nov 2 elections...
>Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:13:03 +0100
>
>
>>--- 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
>
>
>Civilians reported killed by military
>intervention in Iraq: 12,927 - 14,981
>http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
>
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