Re: [ga] Clarification w/r/t Jonathan Cohen's Involvement inWorking Group B

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 12:00:38PM -0400, Dennis Schaefer wrote:
[...]
> In addition, after weeks of lively discourse, with some clear
> cleavages developing, votes were called with little notice, followed by
> a stampede of what I came to call "sleeper voters" -- people who never
> participated in the dialogue, never contributed.  They only showed up to
> vote, converting what had been a consensus-building process into the
> tyranny of the majority. 
>
> Industry can provide busloads of sleepers to a process such as this --
> indeed this is how trade associations routinely operate.  Individuals
> cannot do this.     

*Any* organized group can do this, not just industry.  Governments,
political parties, religions and religious groups, trade unions, trade
associations, standards bodies, schools, fraternities, clubs, etc.  And
the fact that organized groups of individuals can provide more
individual votes than a single individual is simply a tautology.

-- 
Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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