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**Chris** · 04-09-2010, 13:57

I'm not saying it's perfect - it isn't. But then no flavour of democracy is. Besides, just because the electors are chosen, it does not logically follow that they are therefore 'puppets'. Their length of service, diverse backgrounds and the fact that they may have been selected by the last pope, or the one before that, would mitigate against them acting as a 'puppet' in a future papal election.

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Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,249	Re: Taxpayers should not fund Pope's visit, says survey I'm not saying it's perfect - it isn't. But then no flavour of democracy is. Besides, just because the electors are chosen, it does not logically follow that they are therefore 'puppets'. Their length of service, diverse backgrounds and the fact that they may have been selected by the last pope, or the one before that, would mitigate against them acting as a 'puppet' in a future papal election.