[thechat] election crap

Martin martin at members.evolt.org
Thu Jun 7 17:43:14 CDT 2001


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Joe Crawford wrote on 7/6/01 11:17 pm

>that's pretty extreme Martin - is there such a thing as "absentee
>voting" there? where you get a ballot before the fact and transmit (mail
>usually) it to the board of elections (or whatever the equivalent is in
>the UK?

Yup - postal vote, and you can vote by proxy. It used to be that
you had to demonstrate a good reason before you got one (I think
most of my colleagues have one or the other), but now you can
just ask for one.
>
>also - any thoughts on http://www.tacticalvoter.com/ - which I read
>about on Politechbot the other day.

Tactical voting is cool.

Cheers
Martin

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