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Nope, neither of the candidates motivated very many people to actually get up


Election day should be a national holiday, The daylight savings time change
should be delayed till adfter election day too.

theres lots of ways to help turn out.

"Hallerb" wrote in message
...
Election day should be a national holiday, The daylight savings time
change
should be delayed till adfter election day too.

Maybe not a holiday, but why not let it take a week, including a weekend?
That way, there are many more opportunities for those of us who work for a
living to make it to the polls.

Maybe not a holiday, but why not let it take a week, including a weekend?
That way, there are many more opportunities for those of us who work for a
living to make it to the polls.

a coupl;e days might help get out the vote, mving the date to nicre weather
would also be helpful

On 16 Feb 2004 14:38:08 GMT, (Hallerb) wrote:


Nope, neither of the candidates motivated very many people to actually get up


Election day should be a national holiday,

All of them? What makes the first Tuesday in November more important
than the Primaries?

Most businesses are still open on holidays, anyway.

Bran

"Neil Gerace" wrote in message
. au...
Don't you have postal votes there? If you really want to vote, you can.

Yes, and I do. I prefer to vote in person, and it's not always possible to
get off on election day. Being able to stroll into the Supervisor of
Elections office any day of Election Week would make things much easier.

If
you don't really want to vote, don't then complain that the wrong guy got
in

If you don't vote, you *are* voting for the winner.

In message , Hallerb
writes

Maybe not a holiday, but why not let it take a week, including a weekend?
That way, there are many more opportunities for those of us who work for a
living to make it to the polls.

a coupl;e days might help get out the vote, mving the date to nicre weather
would also be helpful

Does he do this on purpose, or does he have a dodgy keyboard?
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Jonathan Silverlight wrote:

In message , Hallerb
writes

Maybe not a holiday, but why not let it take a week, including a weekend?
That way, there are many more opportunities for those of us who work for
a living to make it to the polls.

a coupl;e days might help get out the vote, mving the date to nicre
weather would also be helpful

Does he do this on purpose, or does he have a dodgy keyboard?

Either way, he's just lazy. Keyboards are cheap and easy to replace.
Spellcheckers are quick and convenient to use if one can't spell well or
type accurately.

--
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Reformed Aerospace Engineer
Remove invalid nonsense for email.

Jonathan Silverlight wrote:


a coupl;e days might help get out the vote, mving the date to nicre
weather
would also be helpful


Does he do this on purpose, or does he have a dodgy keyboard?


That, and what part Dark Matter played in shaping the present cosmos are
the two questions that are much on the lips of many in the scientific
community these days.

Pat

In article , Scott Hedrick wrote:

"Neil Gerace" wrote in message
. au...
Don't you have postal votes there? If you really want to vote, you can.

Yes, and I do. I prefer to vote in person, and it's not always possible to
get off on election day. Being able to stroll into the Supervisor of
Elections office any day of Election Week would make things much easier.

Anecdotally, you do get significant turnout improvements over longer
voting periods; anything over a week is overkill, and about a calendar
week seems best. The problems are practical - unless you're using a
hands-off system, like some form of internet voting, it's quite resource
intensive (you'll still get voting surges, you'll need poll workers and
locations, you'll need more extensive security measures - you have to
guard a ballot box for seven nights! - and this all adds up), And, of
course, more conceptual ones - how much more is a long polling period
affected by the media (which is a staggeringly large potential issue in
the US, probably more so than anywhere else I can easily name), should
candidates be allowed to campaign during it, should media coverage be
limited during it (both practical over a day, dosgy over a week...).

It's an interesting question, but certainly not the simplest of issues
to implement :-)

--
-Andrew Gray

Jonathan Silverlight
wrote:

Does he do this on purpose, or does he have a dodgy keyboard?


No, it's Peter that uses that excuse. Adds salt to his debates with
Henry about F-102s.

/dps