OT: This Week In Voting Machine Security 3441
Tim Streater
I don't think that that is a very useful way to thinking about it. Lobbying does not change the power of anyone's vote. It's just that voting is not the only way to influence election outcomes or policy decisions. Spending money and campaigning are just two of the ways of influencing election outcomes beyond your own vote. So for example you can increase your electoral power for a particular candidate by actively supporting them with time, effort or money.
Lobbying, of course, doesn't just influence elections. It influences policy making in other ways, so that elections aren't the only thing that elected officials care about. Any time you try to persuade an elected official to follow an unpopular policy (whether noble or corrupt) you are attempting to influence policy independently of elections.
Michelle Steiner I apologize. I'll try not to do that again. Yes there is. Approximately half of the power of congress is apportioned by state and not by population. Both compromises (the structure of Congress...
I'll have to look at that. As you can guess, I spend far too much time thinking about these sorts of things.
-j
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