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To: Alex who wrote (44636)	11/5/1999 7:35:00 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 116760

Alex, I thought it was you that posted Vote.com. At any rate, apparently the White House isn't that interested in the public's opinions after all! I received this today... Subject: Vote.com Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 16:34:36 -0500 (EST) From: Dick Morris and Eileen McGann <voting@vote.com> To: dlucas@aloha.net Dear Vote.com friends, Thank you for logging onto the vote.com website. The vast participation has exceeded our wildest expectations. By adding your voice to the tens of thousands of voters who are logging on everyday, we will be able to impact vital decisions in Washington. While our e-mails to Congress have, for the most part, been highly welcome and have been met with positive and prompt replies, our e-mails to the White House have been less well received. Even though the President reportedly called the site "very interesting" and said he would log on and cast some votes himself, his minions were less enthusiastic. When your e-mails began to cascade down upon their bureaucratic heads, they first blocked all vote.com e-mails and called it "viscious spamming." That's what they think about your views. Yesterday, they informed our server company that their system is now automated to accept only 70 emails per hour from our site. So far, we have sent them votes from only 4 of the referenda - a total of 82,790 individual votes as of this 8:00 am today. At their rate of acceptance, it will take 60 days to accommodate the current backlog. Future votes will be accepted sometime in the year 2000 - well after the issues you care about are decided. That's not good enough! In order to make sure the White House hears you, we will be creating e-mail petitions that will consolidate every one thousand votes into a single e-mail. What an odd response from an elected Administration to hearing the views of those who vote. It appears that the Internet Administration is burning the bridge to the twenty-first century! We urge you to send your own e-mails to the White House, as individuals. Their e-mail address is: president@whitehouse.gov. Let them hear what you think about being called "viscious spammers" for expressing your views to elected officials about important public issues. We are currently holding eight referenda: handguns for people under 21, suing HMOs, hate crime coverage for gays and lesbians, vouchers for schools, the FAA job performance, funding for the Brooklyn Musuem, racial profiling in law enforcement, and regulation of ATM fees. Later today we will begin a vote on the Microsoft anti-trust suit. Please come back and visit if you haven't voted on all of the votes. We are adding new votes every day. The site is catching on like wildfire!!! Thanks again, Dick Morris and Eileen Mc Gann Vote.com vote.com