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Comment Re:Uncool (Score 1) 208

How does that resolve anything, other then ensuring that Moneual cannot pay back it's creditors.
In what sense does the company owe the public anything, though they do own the banks who extended them the lines of credit. It's not like the public were the ones loaning them money.

Comment Re:Marked Paper Ballots FTW (Score 1) 388

Your understanding of history is a bit off.

The secret ballot did not increase fraud, it reduced it, dramatically.

"In 1888, Louisville adopted a secret ballot to reduce this voter fraud and intimidation. The city was one of the first jurisdictions in the United States to adopt the secret ballot. The Louisville law also prohibited anyone but voters or candidates from coming within 50 feet of the voting booth and forbade candidates or their agents who came inside the 50-foot zone from persuading, influencing, or intimating a voter as to the voter's selection.

The state of Kentucky followed suit, adopting its constitutional provision mandating a secret ballot in 1891.

These reforms — a secret ballot along with prohibitions on campaigning immediately outside the polling site — significantly reduced voter fraud and intimidation. Indeed, most jurisdictions across the United States followed Louisville's and Kentucky's lead, and by 1896 almost 90 percent of states had adopted the secret ballot. The secret ballot is largely credited with rooting out the most overt forms of voter intimidation."

If you can cite an increase in voter fraud and intimidation after 1896 then please do, but your otherwise claim, with nothing to back it up, is less then useful

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