Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 18:49:54 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The recent fracas involving danes, war axes and wounded developers Message-ID: <19981229184954.P32696@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199812290807.KAA53084@greenpeace.grondar.za>; from Mark Murray on Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 10:07:33AM %2B0200 References: <199812280538.VAA07862@dingo.cdrom.com> <199812280700.XAA52236@rah.star-gate.com> <19981229001052.C43500@mad> <199812290807.KAA53084@greenpeace.grondar.za>
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On Tuesday, 29 December 1998 at 10:07:33 +0200, Mark Murray wrote: > Tim Vanderhoek wrote: >> Ah, the myth that voting is good. I have more respect for the person >> who abstains from the next election b/c they aren't sure what party to >> vote for than for the person who votes b/c some advert on TV said >> "excercise your right to vote". > > In this country (ZA), one would "spoil the vote"; you scrawl "screw > you" or some such on the paper. This way your ballot cannot be > stolen/sold, and you have exercised your democratic right to _not_ > vote. Same here. It's termed an ``informal vote'' :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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