From: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (Bill_Stewart(HOY002)1305)
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 93 13:46:43 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Electronic Democracy
Message-ID: <9308142042.AA21896@anchor.ho.att.com>
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An anonymous personage writes
> More succinctly, "Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on lunch."
> Up the republic!

Yeah, though representative government is four wolves voting on _which_ sheep
to have for lunch.  Any time power is available, it can be abused;
it's nice to be working on systems that allow people to do transactions
without providing additional information which can be abused.