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Phanuthier · 03-05-2008, 11:23 PM

Well I probably have vested enough time in this thread that I could have figured out who ran...

What are your thoughts limiting voting to knowledgable voters? By "knowledge" I mean a simple set of 5-10 questions on well-known facts by the candidates to deter contaminated votes.

Of coarse, this does discourage voting and will turn into lower voting turnout, but I obviously don't have a problem with that.

I have a friend that voted in the past provincial election, because he thought a certain politician was cute and wanted to see him on TV more. Do you think thats a better then not voting? (Yes she is a bit of a ditz)

When I was in Cuba a year ago, I was surprised at the pro's and con's towards communism, and how my prejudice ideas differered from what it was actually like there. It was hard to tell which issues were a fall out from the trade embargo though. China and Cambodia were also very interesting to see as well. When I'm in the former soviet states in a few months, that will be interesting to see for sure.

03-05-2008, 11:23 PM	#212
Phanuthier Franchise Player Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Silicon Valley Exp:	Well I probably have vested enough time in this thread that I could have figured out who ran... What are your thoughts limiting voting to knowledgable voters? By "knowledge" I mean a simple set of 5-10 questions on well-known facts by the candidates to deter contaminated votes. Of coarse, this does discourage voting and will turn into lower voting turnout, but I obviously don't have a problem with that. I have a friend that voted in the past provincial election, because he thought a certain politician was cute and wanted to see him on TV more. Do you think thats a better then not voting? (Yes she is a bit of a ditz) When I was in Cuba a year ago, I was surprised at the pro's and con's towards communism, and how my prejudice ideas differered from what it was actually like there. It was hard to tell which issues were a fall out from the trade embargo though. China and Cambodia were also very interesting to see as well. When I'm in the former soviet states in a few months, that will be interesting to see for sure. __________________ "With a coach and a player, sometimes there's just so much respect there that it's boils over" -Taylor Hall Last edited by Phanuthier; 03-05-2008 at 11:28 PM.