Alun L. Palmer wrote:

At least Len finally answered the citizenship question, although I'm not
convinced by his answer.

Nor am I.

As it happens (and many of you already know this) I'm not a US citizen
myself. This means that I can't vote in federal elections, although beleive
it or not, voting in local elections is upto local government to decide. In
fact, I think that the states have the power to let aliens vote in federal,
but not presidential elections, but none of them do any longer, although I
understand it was common in pioneering times when few people were citizens.
One city in this state does allow non-citizens to vote, but it's not the
city I live in.

Point is, commenting isn't voting.

It would be nice to vote, but I am eligible to apply for citizenship at any
time, so this is not a big issue for me. I prefer not to renounce my native
citizenship, even though it would have no legal effect in itself, i.e. the
UK doesn't recognise renunciation.

I don't think FCC cares one way or the other.

When it comes to FCC comment procedures, there is no system in place for
checking the citizenship of anyone who posts a comment, and no longer any
restriction on aliens holding a licence, although there once was, but that
was before my time.

Not only that, but there's probably no real system of checking
that commenters are who they way they are. Of course there
are probably laws on the books for deliberate false statements
but I don't think FCC has gone after any amateur radio commenters
with them...

Hence, if I post a comment it will be counted by the
FCC, if not by Len. OTOH, if people don't post their citizenship (I don't
when commenting to the FCC) Len won't know whether to include them or not
(even though the FCC will).

I think the *content* of the comments is more important than whether
the
commenter is a citizen.

I think this is Jim's point, as it does reflect
on the accuracy of the scorecard, albeit not enough to keep Element 1 from
going West!

It's one point of many I'm making about the (in)accuracy of Len's
'scorecard'.

73 de Jim, N2EY