{"id":1411,"date":"2003-09-11T11:46:29","date_gmt":"2003-09-11T15:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/09\/11\/true-universal-sufferage\/"},"modified":"2003-09-11T11:46:29","modified_gmt":"2003-09-11T15:46:29","slug":"true-universal-sufferage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/11\/true-universal-sufferage\/","title":{"rendered":"True Universal Sufferage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1056'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td width=\"208\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/arn1.jpg\" width=\"191\" height=\"309\" align=\"left\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;      <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"319\">\n<p>Plans continue to open the California Recall Election to<br \/>\n        voters from around the world, on the theory that we all have a stake in<br \/>\n        what happens in California and are all effected by the decisions of the<br \/>\n        chief executive of the world&#8217;s 7th largest economy, an information and entertainment<br \/>\n    economy which increasingly transcends state lines and national borders.<\/p>\n<p>We are organizing an online voting system so that anyone who takes an<br \/>\n      interest and feels empowered can cast a vote on both ballot questions:<br \/>\n      Should Gray Davis be recalled? If so, who should replace him? (Choose one<br \/>\n    out of <a href=\"http:\/\/yubanet.com\/candidates.shtml\">134 candidates<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>To make things more real, and to add an element of participatory democracy,<br \/>\n      we are recruiting 100 registered California voters who are prepared to<br \/>\n      pledge their votes, on a pro-rated percentage basis, to the winners of<br \/>\n      our on-line virtual election. These delegates must be prepared to receive<br \/>\n      voting instructions 1 hour before the official close of voting and get<br \/>\n      to their polling places in time to make their votes, and the votes of all<br \/>\n    of the on-line participants, count.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td colspan=\"2\">This should be fairly easy to do, and seems to me to be completely<br \/>\n      legal, even traditional. I&#8217;m sure there are many hundreds of worthy loonies<br \/>\n      in California who would be willing to sign on to a thrilling project like<br \/>\n      this, and as to legality, although I am sure it is illegal to sell or extort<br \/>\n      votes or otherwise force someone to cast their vote for a candidate other<br \/>\n      than their true favorite, the principle of pledged delegates voting for<br \/>\n      whoever they represent wants elected is ensconced in the US Constitution<br \/>\n      in the form of the Electoral College.<\/p>\n<p>      In addition to registered California voters willing to act as electors,<br \/>\n      we need programmers to help with the site set-up to ensure an accurate<br \/>\n      count and prompt communication of the results to the electors (and the electorate). If interested,<br \/>\n    please respond.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Plans continue to open the California Recall Election to voters from around the world, on the theory that we all have a stake in what happens in California and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/11\/true-universal-sufferage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}