[geeks] One of the things I love about America

[David Cantrell]

On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 08:27:58AM -0400, sambo wrote:
> Mike Meredith wrote:
> >You could be right, but changing the day to a Saturday one year to try
> >it out isn't going to cause the sky to fall in, and would be an
> >experiment just as valid as all the other experiments they're trying.
> I don't know what percentage of the population it comprises in the UK, but
> this would mean that observant Jews would be completely excluded from the
> vote. I see a problem with that, though there may be others who don't.

There are, IIRC, something like 300,000 Jews in the UK.  If we assume that
the same percentage of Jews are observant as amongst Christians, I guess
that makes something like 8,000 observant Jews*.

The numbers, however, are irrelevant.  Systematically disenfranchising any
group of people is a Bad Thing.

Spreading voting over several days might be a good thing.

* - actually, it would make zero observant Jews, cos I'm not aware of
there being a single christian who obeys the "no work on the sabbath"
rule, but I'm prepared to cut them a little slack on stupid rules like
that.

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