Interesting idea, but numbers confuse and frighten people, and we mustn't disenfrachise the innumerate.
Will no one remove the sticker and then forget which number it was on? Will no one enter a wrong digit?
You've made voting harder, but coercion is just as easy as ever. Only one small change is required. "Sit here and vote Quimby while I watch, or I bust your kneecaps" becomes "Bring me the unopened envelope containing your 2-8 numbers, show me the easily removable but unremoved sticker on one of the numbers, then sit here and vote Quimby while I watch, or I bust your kneecaps."
You can't prevent coercion unless you can prevent voters from allowing third parties to watch them fill out and submit their ballots, and you can't prevent that except in the low-tech old-fashioned way.
If Texas has this rule in place, I'm sure there's some other sub-rule or exception that allows for reserving the nominee's spot, or the 70-day rule only applies to non-Dem/GOP people.
I reckon it's easy to be sure there's such a provision if you haven't read the statute. I haven't seen any such provision.
It doesn't make any sense to have such a rule when both parties nominate their candidates later in the year than that.
Or perhaps it doesn't make any sense for the parties to nominate their candidates so late in the year when Texas has such a rule. It's entirely reasonable for states to establish filing deadlines. The two big parties were fully aware of the Texas law, and chose to ignore it by scheduling the latest pair of conventions in history.
Also close, but not quite correct. The original meter was 1/10,000,000 the distance from the North Pole to the Equator along the meridian passing through Paris.
I think most Parisians would be quite surprised to find themselves living only 10 km from the North Pole.
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But of course it's not Lord of the Rings but The Lord of the Rings, and thus we should initialize it as TLotR.
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Interesting idea, but numbers confuse and frighten people, and we mustn't disenfrachise the innumerate.
Will no one remove the sticker and then forget which number it was on? Will no one enter a wrong digit?
You've made voting harder, but coercion is just as easy as ever. Only one small change is required. "Sit here and vote Quimby while I watch, or I bust your kneecaps" becomes "Bring me the unopened envelope containing your 2-8 numbers, show me the easily removable but unremoved sticker on one of the numbers, then sit here and vote Quimby while I watch, or I bust your kneecaps."
You can't prevent coercion unless you can prevent voters from allowing third parties to watch them fill out and submit their ballots, and you can't prevent that except in the low-tech old-fashioned way.
If Texas has this rule in place, I'm sure there's some other sub-rule or exception that allows for reserving the nominee's spot, or the 70-day rule only applies to non-Dem/GOP people.
I reckon it's easy to be sure there's such a provision if you haven't read the statute. I haven't seen any such provision.
It doesn't make any sense to have such a rule when both parties nominate their candidates later in the year than that.
Or perhaps it doesn't make any sense for the parties to nominate their candidates so late in the year when Texas has such a rule. It's entirely reasonable for states to establish filing deadlines. The two big parties were fully aware of the Texas law, and chose to ignore it by scheduling the latest pair of conventions in history.
The Chinese invented fake fireworks.
There, fixed that for me.
The Chinese invented fake fieworks.
In what sense was Olivier the first to play Hamlet? I don't think he's *that* old.
Islam forbids the consumption of alcohol.
Also close, but not quite correct. The original meter was 1/10,000,000 the distance from the North Pole to the Equator along the meridian passing through Paris.
I think most Parisians would be quite surprised to find themselves living only 10 km from the North Pole.