From: harvey@indyvax.iupui.edu
Subject: Vote for SpokesBeing for Earth Now!
Organization: Purdue University, Indianapolis
Date: 28 Sep 92 15:17:14 -0500

It's time to vote for Spokesbeing for Earth!  Leader Kibo has been nominated
for this prestigious position, and he has graciously accepted the nomination!

Please take a few seconds of your time to vote *right now*.  The Future of
Our Planet may be in Your Hands!

And Consider This: a vote for Kibo is a vote *Against* BOTH Richard Nixon
*and* Idi Amin!

To vote, send a one-line mail message containing the line

    Vote: <candidate name>

to Earth@ed.ac.uk.  For example:

% mail Earth@ed.ac.uk
Subject: My vote for Spokesbeing for Earth
Vote: Leader Kibo
.
EOT
%

If your mail software does not understand MX records, send the mail message
to one of the following addresses:

    Earth%ed.ac.uk@festival.ed.ac.uk
    Earth%ed.ac.uk@castle.ed.ac.uk

Only votes timestamped before 00:00 GMT Wed Sept 30 1992 will be accepted.
The original article from alt.alien.visitors announcing the voting and the
candidate list follows...

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>From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
>Subject: Spokesman for Earth: It's time to vote!
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>Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 13:37:04 GMT
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>The voting booth is now open.  Votes timestamped 00:00 GMT Wednesday,
>30 September or earlier will be counted.  Vote for one candidate as
>the person you want elected as the single voice to speak for the
>planet in communications with extraterrestrial intelligences, should
>they be found to exist.
>
>The candidates for Spokesman for Earth are:
>
>Mikhail Gorbachev        Walter Cronkite         Bill Moyers
>Xaviera Hollander        lightnin@wpi.wpi.edu    Leader Kibo
>Cyrus Vance              Cicciolina              John Major
>Dr. Timothy Leary        Mother Theresa          Pierre Salinger
>Jesus of Nazareth        Pele                    Stephen Hawking
>Margaret Thatcher        Geoff Miller, American  Gene Spafford
>Mel Gibson               Carl Sagan              Hilary Clinton
>Peter Gabriel and Brian Eno                      Boris Yeltsin
>Steven Spielberg and George Lucas                "The Pope"
>Gary Stollman            John Winston            The Dalai Lama
>Pee-Wee Herman           Robert Redford          Cindy Crawford
>Richard Nixon            John Romer              James Burke
>William F. Buckley       Barbra Streisand        Princess Diana
>Rick Gordon              "Anybody but David Frost"
>Dizzy Gillespie          Umberto Eco             Johnny Carson
>Nelson Mandela           Anita Hill              Ingmar Bergman
>Samuel Ramey             Aretha Franklin         John Updike
>Frank Sinatra            Li Po                   Jimmy Carter
>"Anyone in Bangladesh, Somalia, or parts of the former Soviet bloc that have
>been ruined by pollution"                        Ted Williams
>"someone who does something nice"                Geoff Miller, Australian
>Robert Sheaffer          Captain Kangaroo        William S. Burroughs
>Idi Amin                 Laurie Anderson         Mary Shafer
>Harpo Marx
>
>
>To vote for one candidate, send Email to Earth@ed.ac.uk, with the line
>
>	Vote: <Candidate Name>
>
>somewhere in the body of the message, for instance:
>
>	Vote: Dizzy Gillespie
>
>or
>
>	Vote: Mary Shafer
>
>Votes must be timestamped between the opening and closing times to be counted,
>though they may arrive at any time after the opening of the voting booth.
>Votes will be counted and the results posted Friday, 2 October, 1992.
>
>For an expanded version of these instructions, see article
>"The Voting Booth" <44763@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> in alt.alien.visitors,
>dated 10:44:06 GMT, 24 Sep 92.
>
>--
>Rick Gordon      | "Often in error, never in doubt."
>rickg@netcom.com |   --- Universal Marketing Department motto

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James Harvey
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