Subject: Re: [EL] Alaska write-ins, voter intent, and the Democracy Canon
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 11/8/2010, 7:31 AM
To: "JBoppjr@aol.com" <JBoppjr@aol.com>
CC: "election-law@mailman.lls.edu" <election-law@mailman.lls.edu>

Jim,

The Prop. 11 commission is hardly random.  There is an extensive screening process, which appears to eliminate anyone with any political experience or political participation.  (This is one of the things that makes me very nervous about it.)  After the auditors choose the first set of participants, these participants choose the remaining members of the commission.  Then, to get anything passed, there has be a plan approved by separate majorities of Dems, Republicans and other party/independent commission members.

Like it or hate it, it is hardly random.

Rick

On 11/8/2010 6:58 AM, JBoppjr@aol.com wrote:
It will be interesting to see how Jon's promotion of random selection works out when the Calif redistricting comm is randomly selected.  I wonder what are the efforts leading up to that to try to manipulate the process.  Jim Bopp
 
In a message dated 11/7/2010 4:15:23 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, jon.roland@constitution.org writes:
Is "clear" clear? Seems foggy to me.

Oh for the day when we are all, past, present, and future, interconnected digitally with no possibility of ambiguity. Except that logic can be fuzzy and indeterminacy rules the Universe, except perhaps to first approximation, except for the exceptions.

Random selection of legislators is beginning to look better every day.
-- Jon

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