<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1276" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#000080 size=2>you couldn't be more right, nathan.  the only wasted vote is a vote uncast.  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#000080 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#000080 size=2>now if only the so-called two party system would take your message seriously and provide voters with candidates worth voting for.  it's a tragedy to see the garbage the parties consistently produce after decades of the people's struggle.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#000080 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#000080 size=2>R</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=nathanne@nathannewman.org href="mailto:nathanne@nathannewman.org">nathanne@nathannewman.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org href="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, November 18, 2003 6:34 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [lbo-talk] Re: Campaigning vs. Voting</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Tahir Wood said:<BR>> My own view is that one needs to discredit the electoral process by<BR>>rather spreading ideas on how to create a system of dual power, so that<BR>>eventually very few people go to the polls but many participate in<BR>other >forms of political organisation.<BR><BR>That are what?  Dominated by elite intellectuals, without all the<BR>grubiness of one person, one vote?<BR><BR>What do you have against voting?<BR><BR>Sure, in practice it's perverted in a lot of ways, but that's an argument<BR>for improving the process.<BR><BR>I hear this anti-voting rhetoric and I have an instinctive historical<BR>"f--- you" feeling, given that people have died to gain that right to<BR>vote.<BR><BR>-- Nathan Newman<BR>___________________________________<BR><A href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</A><BR><BR><BR>___________________________________<BR><A href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>