Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ccieng2.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!seismo!rochester!ritcv!ccieng5!ccieng2!bwm From: bwm@ccieng2.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: voting - (nf) Message-ID: <122@ccieng2.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Feb-84 18:02:00 EST Article-I.D.: ccieng2.122 Posted: Thu Feb 16 18:02:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Feb-84 03:52:39 EST References: <5620@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: Computer Consoles Inc., Rochester, NY Lines: 12 And how about Heinlein's approach (R. H. - sf author of some controversy). As I recall, he wanted to present anyone who entered a voting booth to vote with a randomly generated quadratic equation with integer roots. You had some limited time to solve the eqn, or you couldn't vote (thus assuring some minimal iq of the voters, i suppose, at least if you prevented calculators from being in the booths as well). He also mentioned that we could improve the species at the same time - if you couldn't solve the eqn, you never left the booth! (I believe I saw these in an essay in Expanded Universe, previously published). -- ...[rlgvax, ritcv]!ccieng5!ccieng2!bwm