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I went back and edited again my post about why I joined the local Occupation.
How did I forget to include voting reforms in the list? Ranked choice ballots ("instant runoff") is necessary to make psychological manipulation of the electorate (fear mongering) a mathematical problem too intractable to solve. Open source software and hardware is necessary to protect against election machinery fraud. Public financing of campaigns is necessary to prevent moneyed interests from overwhelming the public debate.
How did I forget to include voting reforms in the list? Ranked choice ballots ("instant runoff") is necessary to make psychological manipulation of the electorate (fear mongering) a mathematical problem too intractable to solve. Open source software and hardware is necessary to protect against election machinery fraud. Public financing of campaigns is necessary to prevent moneyed interests from overwhelming the public debate.
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Date: 2011-Nov-10, Thursday 10:49 pm (UTC)(I find it odd that the same people who will queue for hours/days for concert tickets, and engage in endless postal shenanigans with banks, insurance and utilities companies and even for cereal-box competitions, object to being required to vote for the team who rules the country once every four years. It's not rocket science!)
Yes, harvesting votes from the whole eligible population of the USA would require massive logistical adjustments, but the system used in Australia is entirely scalable.
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Date: 2011-Nov-11, Friday 02:36 pm (UTC)That refund might be an incentive to get people to the polling booth!