Who can vote? Anyone, as often as you like, for anything! We're not cock-counting "one man one vote" types down here. However, as famed socialist SF writer George Orwell said, or might have said, in an early draft, "some pigs, Snorty-Poo, are more equal than others" which means that the tabulations to declare the winner could vary from the hegemonic "majority rules" conception of "democracy."
I wish to hell I had read this before today's faculty meeting. Our voting procedures so, you know, patriarchal and hegemonic right now.
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Date: 2006-05-18 12:32 am (UTC)I wish to hell I had read this before today's faculty meeting. Our voting procedures so, you know, patriarchal and hegemonic right now.
LOL!
Cathy
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Date: 2006-05-18 06:20 am (UTC)Right. There must be some Clorox and smelling salts around here somewhere.
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Date: 2006-05-18 06:41 am (UTC)IYKWIM...
Right. There must be some Clorox and smelling salts around here somewhere.
...AITYD.
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