[90778] in Cypherpunks
Re: Influence as a voter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Sun Nov 23 15:19:19 1997
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 97 14:36:20 EST
In-Reply-To: <199711231837.MAA00619@manifold.algebra.com>
Reply-To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home) writes:
> Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
> > others not to :-). You don't have a choice about paying taxes to
> > pay for the horrible public schools / socialized medicine and your
> > influence as a voter ain't worth shit.
>
> Dimitri, some time ago there was a vote on a certain soc.culture.*
> newsgroup.
>
> As you know, the group passed, but if there was one YES vote less than
> the number cast, the group would not pass.
>
> That one vote came from you (thank you). Do you think that your influence
> in the vote was not worth shit? I think not.
Since that time, the news.groups voting process has become even more corrupt.
When the skirvins and the isleys want to pass (or not pass) a newsgroup,
they just make up votes from nonexistant addresses as needed.
I'm sure if it weren't for my YES vote, the UVV would have forged a YES
vote from someone else. In fact, I have a strong suspicion that the UVV
either made up or discarded some YES votes to make it look like the
proposal passed by a single vote.
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