EFF - Verified Voting

[Leo J Mauler]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 09:42:52 -0600 Jonathan Hutchins
<hutchins at tarcanfel.org> writes:
> On Wednesday, January 14, 2004 06:08 am, Leo J Mauler wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:51:08 -0600 Hal Duston 
> <hduston at speedscript.com>
> 
> > > Both senators represent the entire state.
> 
> > Yes, but which Senator do I have the power of voting 
> > out of office if I didn't live in a 95% Republican state?
>  
> I sure wish there were a HOWTO on this one.
> 
> Your Senators each represent the whole state.  You 
> vote for both/either of them.  Your Congresman 
> represents a district withn the state, you vote for one.

Ahhh.  Perhaps I should attend more elections during 
non-Presidential election years.  :)

Its so easy to forget the last vote that didn't count if it 
took place almost four years ago.
 
> Originally, the Senators were appointed by the state 
> government, and intended to represent the state as 
> an entity, while the Congresmen were to represent the 
> people of the state.  This was modeled after the British 
> parlement, where the House of Lords represented the 
> (ruling) nobility, and the House of Commons 
> represented the people.

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