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摘要

Laptop computers will slumber into Screensaver mode, virtual in-trays will fill up with e-mail messages and answering machines will fill up with telephone calls. And where will the people be? Slogging to the polling station in person to pencil their choices onto ballot papers- which must then be counted by hand. Yes, next week British voters go to the polls to select a new batch of MPs-the 650-odd characters who for the next few years will make the country's most important decisions. Before the year's end, Canadians too will probably elect a new crowd of law-makers, while Americans have barely recovered from the trauma of last November's plebiscite.