On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Monty J. Harder <<a href="mailto:mjharder@gmail.com">mjharder@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Some people who oppose greater formal organization may consider participating in the poll to be implicitly endorsing such organization. Therefore, all people who don't respond should be considered to be "no" votes.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>How would we know the quantity of these "no" votes?<br><br>I think somewhat the opposite is true. Those people who do register and "go through the trouble" of voting, by doing so, indicate they have enough commitment that they care to the outcome. It's somewhat comparable to a electoral process; Those who don't bother to vote, have no right to complain about the outcome of the voting.<br>
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