From: Gregory Alan Bolcer (gbolcer@endtech.com)
Date: Sun Nov 05 2000 - 11:35:48 PPET
The real question is, should you be able to
sell your vote to the higest bidder on EBay?
Greg
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/reports/gmsv/
> When I grow up I want to live in a world where
> the Secretary of State censures political speech on
> the Internet... The Southern California branch of the
> American Civil Liberties Union will file for a
> temporary restraining order against the state of
> California and California Secretary of State Bill
> Jones for "threatening criminal prosecution" against
> voteswap2000.com -- a site where people in hotly
> contested states agree to vote for Gore if someone in
> a less contested state votes for Nader. The hope is that
> by doing so Gore will gain a lead over Bush in the
> contested states, while the Green Party gains the
> minimum 5 percent of votes necessary in other states
> to qualify for campaign contribution matching funds
> in the 2004 presidential election. Jones' previously
> filed restraining order cast a wet blanket over the
> initiative, one the ACLU claims undermines healthy
> political discourse. "What the secretary of state is
> doing is censuring political speech on the Internet,"
> said Mark Rosenbaum, an attorney for the Southern
> California branch of the ACLU. "It's the first time
> I'm aware of that any elected official anywhere has
> attempted to censure political speech on the Internet...
> I think the secretary of state is clamping down on
> pure political speech," he said. "Whether it's because
> he's a Republican and this is a (site designed to help)
> Democrats I don't know, but he's chilling the nation's
> discourse."
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