Yeah, brilliant, you're the first person to think of creating multiple e-mail accounts.
Once again (as pointed out in the thread about votepact.org) the important thing is to get a sense of how this actually works. If you visit the site you'll see that there are many more people signed up than actual pairs made. That's because the great majority of those signing up are Kerry supporters in strongly conservative states. (Many of them, as I understand it, are college-age Democrats who are frustrated to be voting for Kerry in Texas, for example.)
So even if someone does as you suggest, it probably won't have any impact since there are already bunches of people willing to pair their Kerry votes.
I suppose one could say that it's possible to game the system to get more Nader votes in non-battleground states by posing as a Nader supporter in Pennsylvania or Florida. Or as a hundred Nader supporters, if you wish. But all that would do is add a small number of votes to the national total Nader gets on election day. It won't impact the outcome of the race, and that's what this is about.
I think the votepair people have done their homework pretty well and set up a practical, coherent alternative.
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Yeah, brilliant, you're the first person to think of creating multiple e-mail accounts.
Once again (as pointed out in the thread about votepact.org) the important thing is to get a sense of how this actually works. If you visit the site you'll see that there are many more people signed up than actual pairs made. That's because the great majority of those signing up are Kerry supporters in strongly conservative states. (Many of them, as I understand it, are college-age Democrats who are frustrated to be voting for Kerry in Texas, for example.)
So even if someone does as you suggest, it probably won't have any impact since there are already bunches of people willing to pair their Kerry votes.
I suppose one could say that it's possible to game the system to get more Nader votes in non-battleground states by posing as a Nader supporter in Pennsylvania or Florida. Or as a hundred Nader supporters, if you wish. But all that would do is add a small number of votes to the national total Nader gets on election day. It won't impact the outcome of the race, and that's what this is about.
I think the votepair people have done their homework pretty well and set up a practical, coherent alternative.