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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (119943)	11/18/2003 11:04:42 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 281500

Sigh! Do you guys ever listen or do you just take joy in going out of your way to misrepresent what I say? > No democracy obtains 100% voter participation. Did I claim or ask for that? If only 65% of the people participate and the winner has 80% majority, then he still has the approval of most of the people. If not at half of the population, where do you draw the line? If there are a million people and the majority winner has the votes of say only a thousand of them, would you consider his rule a legitimate one? > if people don't take the time to vote against a President, it can be effectively said that they tacitly support him. Not so. We are not allowed to vote against a candidate. To do this properly we should be able to vote whom we do not wish to be ruled by rather than being forced to choose who we want. Secondly, since when not voting means having voted for the winner? Your logic here is most bizzar. Is it not more likely that if I am not voting it is because I care about none of my choices rather than approving of the winner? > There will always be some element of corruption in the election process... You are twisting the debate. This is not about election corruption as you've described it. It is about the whole system being a catch-22 so that even if there was no corruption it still wouldn't have produced the right results. > If you can't find a candidate who doesn't represent a few of the things you feel strongly about... That is another cheap shot which also fails to survive analysis. I can find those candidates just fine, they just don't get as much corporate money thrown their way.