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To: SeekAndFind

A brief history lesson. Elections used to be held by have every voter gather at a central location. All those for Smith, stand over there, all those for Jones, stand over here. Everyone could see who voted for whom and everyone who could count knew who won.

If you couldn’t make the meeting, you didn’t vote. You couldn’t send a neighbor to vote for you. And since everyone knew everyone, you couldn’t vote in a district where you didn’t live.

A very primitive system that worked for hundreds of years and capable of being understood by all but the very dimmest. We have now ‘progressed’ to a system that while simple in theory takes time to explain, is understood by few, and takes weeks to declare a winner. The march of progress is a wonderful thing.


9 posted on 02/13/2023 10:16:17 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu

The problem with having everyone see how you vote is that you can be threatened by job loss if you don’t vote the ‘right way’

Tammany Hall, a corrupt democratic vote machine in NYC, would have people fired from jobs if they didn’t’ t vote for the Tammany candidates.

Secret ballots have their issues but I don’t think we want to return to having everyone see your vote.


16 posted on 02/13/2023 10:36:35 AM PST by sloanrb
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To: hanamizu
In Virginia after 1670, freeholders in possession of at least one hundred unsettled acres, twenty-five homesteaded acres, or a building lot in Norfolk or Williamsburg, traveled to county or town courthouses on election day to publicly cast their vote for their candidate to the House of Burgesses.

Progressing the Constitution - One Man One Vote.

34 posted on 02/13/2023 2:58:09 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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