[Magdalen] Brexit 2nd vote?

[Scott Knitter]

I saw an analysis of the petition to Parliament to have a second
referendum (which I assume would be a chance to change minds now that
everyone's had a chance to be educated a bit on all the various
consequences); the analysis said the main problem is the retroactivity
of it: Let's vote again because neither Leave nor Remain achieved 60%
and turnout wasn't 75% or something. Sort of like applying new rules
to an already-played game to make it turn out differently. Maybe there
are other aspects to this, though. But mostly I don't see much
optimism that this petition will work. For something as momentous as
this, I'm a little surprised a simple majority was all that was
needed. But of course the rules can be set only before, not after, the
vote.

On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 7:20 PM, Marion Thompson
<marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
> If I had voted Leave and genuinely wished to do so, I would be mighty pissed
> off if people began to fiddle things so that my victory was taken from me.
> When is a vote not worth the paper it's written on?  Doesn't sound right to
> me.  Cameron started it and shouldn't have, but people voted and it is
> disingenuous to say, Oh well, we didn't mean THAT, if the people don't like
> the process they have set in motion.




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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA