[Leica] IMGs: visual thinking

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

The reason why I asked that is from my experience in India, most
armchair experts do not vote. My personal view is that forfeits their
right to pontificate about anything. I strongly support Brazil's
system where voting is legally compulsory, and not doing so is a
criminal offense.

Incidentally, we have been having elections in one of our poorest and
least educated states, Bihar, and till now (the voting is held on six
days over a month in order to deploy police forces in sufficient
numbers), despite Maoist threats of violence the voting has been
around 55%. The interesting thing is that for the first time in living
memory, the elections would probably favour the incumbent Chief
Minister, Nitish Kumar, who again, for the first time in living memory
has actually brought development to the state. Ranged against him are
political parties who truly believe that educating the populace is
dangerous as it will eat into their vote bank!

Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at 
> gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Did all of you vote last time?
>>
>
>
> Two years ago, I did not vote in an election for millage renewal, and a 
> city
> councilman. ? The favored one was my choice, and he won. ?I had to be out 
> of
> town unexpectedly, otherwise I would have voted early.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Sonny
> http://sonc.com/look/
> Natchitoches, Louisiana
>
> USA
>
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