RE: [atlarge-discuss] Legitimacy

[Walter Schmidt <walts@dorsai.org>]

On Tue, 20 May 2003, Joop Teernstra wrote:

> I agree that voters *could* be silly enough to vote for a fraud in this
> coming election. However, since we are a collection of people with more
> than average education, I doubt it.

   ...and how is general education helpful in identifying an individual
who is not whom they say they are - it's one thing to have a "quiet" known
member become active, it's quite another thing to "greet" new members.

> In the meantime, we have to go on the assumption that the candidates are
> who they say they are and challenge the ones we doubt.

   ..."assumption" is the mother of many things - none good!

> Surely not. Please challenge all candidates you do not know to post
> their picture in the Forum and attach the names and addresses of two
> witnesses with their email addresses.

   ...that, seriously, proves little as to real identity.

With the inclusion of unknowns-to-us, we have opened ourselves up to be
given just what such actions deserve - pity we do not seem to want to
"fix" the situation before it becomes "broken beyound repair."

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