8th May 2003, 12:59 PM
I wasn't aware there were towns that still had town hall meetings. I saw it on the Simpsons sure, but I thought it was a joke. Of course where I live the population is a bit too large for such a thing to be possible, so that might explain why it just doesn't happen here. Still, there is a lot of voting on issues anyway, just without the town hall meetings.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)