Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

["Austin, Roger" <rda AT rti.org>]

 I'd like to see a more direct way of using the money, direct bribes for
frequent voters. I vote in every election. I have since the
McGovern-Nixon campaign. That ought to be worth something to the
candidates. All this money that they are spending rarely affects the
actual 10-15% of the people who actually go to the polls. This should
mean that my vote for them would be worth some green.
 What about $100 for the President/VP race? Maybe $50 for a governor or
senator? Probably $1 or $2 for a congressional seat? A nickel or dime
for the local races except for sherriff which should probably be about
$1k?
 This seems more like the free enterprise system at work...
 Roger (in RTP digesting after a lunch meeting)

Linda Watson wrote:
> 
> Let's take the money now given to the individual political candidates and
> to political parties and use it to make sure every home has Internet
> access. Instead of using our tax dollars for those hideous commercials,
> ugly road signs, and pointless conventions, we could buy everyone a network
> appliance and a dial-up account. Every government entity would have a
> website showing the election schedules with links to the pages of the
> candidates -- and to pages about the candidates.