How to Rig an Election for Fun and Profit, New Orleans edition

As seen on Digg: Outsourcing Democracy - How to Rig an Election for Fun and Profit. New Orleans is picking city planners for rebuilding through an online poll accessible by anyone with an email address. This is wrong in so many ways. It's trivially easy to vote even if you're dead and live in Chicago, which is bad enough. More to the point of New Orleans, it's really hard to vote if all you have is a cell phone and a FEMA trailer, and that's too many people right now.

More details and commentary at Think New Orleans.

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Comments

[Dave New]

"even if you're dead and live in Chicago" -- is that a common occurence in Chicago?

[Alan Gutierrez]

It's hard to vote from a FEMA trailer, indeed.

Part of the annoyance was the way in which Concordia would keep saying, that's on the web site, we'll post that on the web site. They are simply not standing on the same ground as the rest of us.

[Maitri]

Hi Ed,

Thanks for pointing to Alan's article and your continued interest in NOLA. I have an idea - each NOLA blogger picks a blogger outside of here and partners with them to raise awareness of issues pertaining to our struggle here.

So, for example, I partner with you, and point you to an article I'd like you to highlight and then I'll reciprocate.

What are the pros and cons of such an approach? Let's discuss.

Welcome to the NOLogsphere!

[Maitri]

Dave New,

That arises from many dead being on the voter rolls in Chicago during the Daley years. Also the source of "Vote Early, Vote Often"