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Originally from NYT, and that is the actual headline.

One big flaw sits at the heart of the author's article: who chooses the pool from which to draw?

After all, it works so well in DC and NYC for juries (re: Donald Trump)....

The problem the 'elites' really have is people's self determination. If only 'those people' were out of the way....

1 posted on 08/22/2023 8:53:35 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: Tench_Coxe

Garbage!


2 posted on 08/22/2023 8:58:57 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Tench_Coxe
"Officials have been working hard to safeguard elections and assure citizens of their integrity."


3 posted on 08/22/2023 9:00:24 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Tench_Coxe
No, democracy is bad for elections.

We have proven that any idiot can vote. Good thing we live in a representative republic that has an electoral college.

4 posted on 08/22/2023 9:02:11 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: Tench_Coxe

The issue is not “democracy” - never was, is not now, nor never will be.

The issue is our FREE CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC created by the U.S. Constitution which is maybe the greatest political and legal document ever created and which despite the ongoing Leftist insurrection, is the Supreme Law of the Land (US Const., Art. VI, Cl. 2).


5 posted on 08/22/2023 9:03:30 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Tench_Coxe; All
The efforts to keep Trump off the ballot is an attack on democracy.

Al Gore’s pal Lawrence Tribe argues it can and must be done. For his part, Dershowitz (who was part of Bush vs Gore) has ridiculed the Georgia case and says keeping Trump off the ballot is unconstitutional. He says they also planned alternative slates of electors but the SCOTUS decision mooted that.

Newsom is asking the legislature to keep Trump off the ballot in California. Why would Trump be able to win in the People’s Republic of California?

Documents case is the toughest case for Trump.

6 posted on 08/22/2023 9:03:40 AM PDT by newzjunkey ("Listless vessel" -- We need a better Trump than Trump in 2024)
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To: Tench_Coxe

America has been “Selecting vs Electing” for decades. Very few offices have fair elections ……


7 posted on 08/22/2023 9:12:46 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: Tench_Coxe; All

When Rush first started to predict that they were going to just stop the idea of voting I thought that would be one of the predictions that wouldn’t happen. I guess he saw something way back when. They haven’t made it official but O now see a very reasonably path to that end.


8 posted on 08/22/2023 9:13:41 AM PDT by wiseprince (Me)
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To: Tench_Coxe

I am working on an opinion article about what “Our Democracy” means - but since I may never finish it, the TL;DR is: “our democracy” means a pointless struggle between two groups, both hostile to the majority in this country, designed to make sure voters never achieve self-government and to make sure no truly popular political movement ever emerges.


9 posted on 08/22/2023 9:14:45 AM PDT by Jim Noble (He who saves the nation breaks no law)
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To: Tench_Coxe

The idea of political offices being filled by random selection has been suggested before. Aside from the question of who sets the qualifications for the candidate pool, an even greater problem is who actually would be running things. It would be the unelected advisers, bureaucrats, “experts”, etc., far more than even the shadow government that we have today. No, thanks.


12 posted on 08/22/2023 9:19:45 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Tench_Coxe

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14 posted on 08/22/2023 9:34:19 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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