JDG wrote: > >> These things are illegal here in Brazil. When you vote, you are alone. Not >> even cell phones are allowed inside the voting booth - otherwise it would >> violate the secrecy > > Both those things are illegal in Maryland as well..... as you might > imagine John's story was very amazing, as so far as I knew, this > was true all across America. > Ah, ok. I might guess that someone might have argued that "freedom of speech" would imply that you have the right to make your vote public :-)
[here it was common to politicians, when voting, to show their paper votes to the cameras - showing that they voted for themselves. Some of them were asked to destroy it and vote again, secretly] Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
