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Article #30Re: Canada and Quebec (was: REFERENDUM '92)
From: der Mouse
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 08:44
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 08:44
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In article <1992Nov6.161403.8253@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>, peta@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Peter Whaite) writes: [stuff about democracy in ancient Greece] > Really means the rule of the "demos", or the citizen body. True, franchise was much more restricted. Someone else said a population of 100K, with 3K voting. That's rather low by modern standards...anyone happen to know how the typical voter turnout compares to the population? (Note I said population, not enfranchised portion of the population. The fraction of those able to vote who actually do may be another interesting number....) > [I]t may be that the development of communication technolgy is going > to make "direct democracy" viable again. [...] However its going to > be interesting, in particular, how can one guarantee the integrity of > an electronic vote collecting/counting system that is continental in > extent? How can one guarantee the integrity of a non-electronic vote collecting/counting system that is continental in extent? der Mouse mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!olivea!charnel!sifon!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!mouse From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) Newsgroups: socs.misc,alt.canada,soc.canada,alt.politics.canada,mcgill.general,soc.culture.canada,can.politics Subject: Re: Canada and Quebec (was: REFERENDUM '92) Message-ID: <1992Nov7.084403.14167@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Date: 7 Nov 92 08:44:03 GMT References: <14052@elevia.uniforum.qc.ca> <1992Nov6.161403.8253@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines Lines: 24