Re: [ga] Re: Suspension of Voting Rights

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:53:11PM +0200, marc@venster.nl wrote:
> On Tue, 1 May 2001, at 21:47 [=GMT-0700], Kent Crispin wrote:
> > However, your proposal is really no better.  Notwithstanding the best
> > efforts of the intellectual property interests, there still is no cheap
> > and easy way to strongly bind a domain registration to a particular
> > person or entity, and privacy advocates would go ballistic if there was
> > one. 
> 
> So what? Some people with multiple domains will create fake
> identities? Would that influence the outcome of any elections to a
> relevant degree?

Yes, it is quite possible.  Most people don't care about any of this 
stuff; a few thousand votes could be decisive.  There are many 
such scenarios, the most interesting of which is, perhaps, the 
participation of governments.  (The at-large elections demonstrated this 
most clearly.)

--
Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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