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Outsourcing Democracy - How to Rig an Election for Fun and Profit

thinknola.com — This is outrageous: "The citizens of New Orleans have been asked to choose the planners that will guide them through the process of developing a city wide plan for rebuilding. The method to record the response of the neighborhoods is an online poll." An online poll? The article even describes how to rig the "election".

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  • napkinback, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They don't even require that you fill out your name or address. There's absolutely no way for anyone to verify that a voter is actually a resident.

    By the way, anyone who wants to "participate" can say they live in the French Quarter, district 1. I hear ACORN is a nice group.
  • anearthling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wow, you don't even have to register dead people anymore to rig an election. is this politics 2.0?
  • schooler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"voting" closed that must mean there will be RESULTS to post
    can't wait
  • alangutierrez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You should have heard Stephen Bingler talk about how 2,000 people voted in the poll. It was during a meeting about outreach strategies, where he'd called a bunch of nonproifts and media people together to what was, I guess, a brainstorming session, 11 months after the flood, on outreach. Process, process, process...

    Thank you all for showing an interest in New Orleans.
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