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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">My ballot has been marked and ready to deliver in the morning. I, for one,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">found the RM collection of material and comments helpful, even if I didn't </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">agree on my final answer on all points.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Wednesday, October 28, 2020, 10:16:31 AM PDT, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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<div>Quoting Paul Zander (<a shape="rect" href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">paulz@ieee.org</a>):<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Thank you Rick for your efforts. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">Glad to help. We're smarter together.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> I looked at RM's references. On almost every issue the SMCdems and<br clear="none">> SMCreps had the opposite view. The one exception was 24, regarding<br clear="none">> consumer privacy, they both recommend no. Meanwhile, Rick is voting<br clear="none">> yes. Hum, how might Rick know more about computers and privacy than<br clear="none">> our political "experts"? I'm voting yes.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Honestly, I'd have had much less clue about Prop. 24, the online data<br clear="none">privacy measure, if I hadn't read Pete Stahl's explanation, and _he_ <br clear="none">says he'd not have had much clue without a meticulous series of articles<br clear="none">by LA Times reporter Michael Hiltzik, detailing the history of this <br clear="none">complex ballot measure and where all the bodies are buried.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Which IMO underlies my point about what I'm trying to do with the page: <br clear="none">We're smarter if we pool the observations of credible commenters, and<br clear="none">see what each of them, pro and con, have to say. I started the page<br clear="none">because I felt that we can do better than the dead-tree Official Voter<br clear="none">Information Guide and County Sample Ballot & Official Voter Information<br clear="none">Pamphlet -- because we have the World-Wide Web, so let's friggin' use it<br clear="none">properly.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">My qualifier, _credible_ commenters, acknowledges one of the obstacles:<br clear="none">There's a lot of crazy, incompetent, and/or propagandistic and dishonest<br clear="none">junk out there, _especially_ just before Election Day, and I'll be the<br clear="none">first to acknowledge that I pick and choose what's worth even calling<br clear="none">attention to.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">You'll have perhaps noted that in recent edits I moved the "S.M.C.<br clear="none">Democrats endorsed" and "S.M.C. Republicans endorsed" items (and their<br clear="none">Santa Clara County counterparts for Prop. RR) down to the bottom of the<br clear="none">block of endoursements. That's because, on reflection, I felt they<br clear="none">don't give voters much information, and yet are still of interest.<div class="ydp894a4ad1yqt7824833262" id="ydp894a4ad1yqtfd17788"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">conspire mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br clear="none"></div></div>
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