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- From: wr001b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (william e raftery)
- Subject: Re: Censoring information , Is it possible tomorrow?
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- In article <1992Nov10.020925.22734@irscscm.UUCP> rshwake@irscscm.UUCP (Ray Shwake) writes:
- >In article <Bx769K.2tG@intcorp.mn.org> jdf@intcorp.mn.org (Joel D. Flatt) writes:
- >>What about Hawaii and Alaska? How about not counting ANY ballots until
- >>the day after the election?
- >
- > Here's another alternative: Two-day voting (Saturday thru Sunday).
- > This avoids the pre-work after-work crush at the polling place
- > resulting from workday voting; it provides plenty of opportunity for
- > west coasters (including those in Alaska and Hawaii) to get their
- > votes in before east coast counting begins; it even avoids the
- > Sabbath problem that might be present if only one weekend voting
- > day were provided.
- >
- > Costs might be somewhat higher, but most of those manning the booths
- > are volunteers anyway.
-
-
- This is my first time posting here or anywhere for that manner, so
- please bear with me. Wouldn't there need to be a constituional amendment to
- change the day of voting. I don't have a copy of the Constituion handy, but
- I seem to remember that the second Tuesday in November is in there
- somewhere. Besides, even if this happened, we would still have the problem
- of the media making projections with only 2% of the vote in, or worse, with
- 0% of the vote in and projections via exit polls. The Federal Election
- Commission can't exactlly tell them to not project for fear of having a
- "First Amendment-fight-for-your-right-to-project" bloodbath. About the only
- thing that can be done, short of killing all pollsters (an idea perhaps
-