[WikiEN-l] Proposal: limited extension of semi-protection policy

[Ray Saintonge]

The Cunctator wrote:

>On 5/24/06, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:
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>>>We have open editing?
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>>Of course we do.  Does the fact that, for example, felons can't
>>vote in the U.S. mean it's not a democracy?
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>Many serious people have made that argument in all seriousness.
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>To be more precise, only certain states prevent felons from voting.
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>The practice, one can more easily argue, is one of the reasons the US isn't
>a very good democracy.
>
When people believe they live in a democracy it doesn't matter how that 
term is defined.

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