Re: "GOVLOT", $100,000,000 Get Out the Vote Lottery

["John Gelles" <jjgelles@xxxxxxxx>]

        Henry Liu writes:

        "Perhaps more people will vote [not only if
        lured to the polls by a lottery] but if they are
        presented with real choices."

        Henry, the choice of Gore, Bush, Nader,
        Buchanan and more than a huindred others on
        the ballot are quite enough.

        The problem is not with the outcomes of
        elections. It is with the outcomes of RE-
        ELECTIONS.

        When every incumbent white official knew
        that RE-election required black voters, they
        changed the laws to increase democratic
        outcomes. They got the message to stop
        needlessly screwing people who used to not
        be able to vote.

        The same will happen if we once get close to
        100% voting.  Re-election will require
        prosperity.  Keynes told politicians how to
        regain prosperity if they once lose it. They will
        heed his advice -- enhanced by technology --
        and we may expect to see a successful lifting
        of the minimum standard of living.

        Admittedly, genius will still be required in
        government to succeed in diplomacy, domestic
        governance, etc.  We will not have a less
        demanding set of tasks for all to do. We will
        just put an end to the useless hurt of poor
        people.  No one will be poor.
                    But many will be nuts, sick, evil and
        looking for trouble.  And they will find it.
        Some of them will be us.


        John Gelles
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