Re: [ga] GA position on Verisign contract
"William X. Walsh" wrote: > > If a Senator is ill, and doesn't show up for a vote, and it passes > 50-49, with his absence, he can't later demand that it be invalidated > because he was otherwise occupied. Same with a voter in an election. > If the vote was decided by 1 vote, and he was unable to vote because > he was in an out of town conference unexpectedly, he doesn't have the > right to declare the election invalid because of his > non-participation, regardless of the reason for it. In fact, the adoption of the US Federal Reserve as the monetary arbiter of the US Currency was resolved by a mere three voters... unanimously, with the rest of the House being absent/away on vacation at the time(!) If this doesn't squash the illegitimacy based on numbers argument, then I really don't know what will... Sotiris Sotiropoulos Individual S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
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