Monday, October 18, 2004
what happens when...
A forum post about what happens to one's absentee vote if one buys the farm before the election got me thinking since I was born in and will probably die in the croaker state. According to Florida Statistics Publications, Table 7, there were 151,374 folk kinda my age and up that took the eternal dirt nap in 2003. The 3 leading formalin consuming counties were 1) Dade, 2) Broward, and 3) Palm Beach. No wonder they had such a hard time with the chads in 2000! Ectoplasmic beings usually don't have much physical engagement with this plane of existence! However, according to the Florida Division of Elections, on absentee ballots, "One request can cover all elections within a calendar year."
There has been a small odor rising due to a scad of 'volunteers' running around nursing homes this year registering and 'assisting' in the voting process... No, they are not Republicans.
..just went and looked up the county by county voting record for Florida in 2000 from Polidata. Pretty kewl, eh? Betcha can't guess the names of the 3 big red (Dem) ones on the bottom! ;o)
Chicago, ya ain't got nothin' on us! ;o) Feel sorry for the poor little red one in the top-middle. It's the county where the U of F is located and always votes slightly to the left of Lenin.
I rather expect howls of voter fraud unless the election is a runaway. The entire voting system is fubar, IMO due to anyone with a body temperature above minus one Kelvin (n/0) seems eligible. I've been fiddling around with a modest proposal for a while that might patch a few errors. Yep, got my asbestos undies on! You're welcome to add to these unkempt thoughts, got a couple of edits to add myself!
Silflay Hraka has a thought or so at Me Am Exercising Mine Franchise that makes sense. Obviously it'll never happen.
Lunch time is over, back to the jungle wars...
There has been a small odor rising due to a scad of 'volunteers' running around nursing homes this year registering and 'assisting' in the voting process... No, they are not Republicans.
..just went and looked up the county by county voting record for Florida in 2000 from Polidata. Pretty kewl, eh? Betcha can't guess the names of the 3 big red (Dem) ones on the bottom! ;o)
Chicago, ya ain't got nothin' on us! ;o) Feel sorry for the poor little red one in the top-middle. It's the county where the U of F is located and always votes slightly to the left of Lenin.
I rather expect howls of voter fraud unless the election is a runaway. The entire voting system is fubar, IMO due to anyone with a body temperature above minus one Kelvin (n/0) seems eligible. I've been fiddling around with a modest proposal for a while that might patch a few errors. Yep, got my asbestos undies on! You're welcome to add to these unkempt thoughts, got a couple of edits to add myself!
Silflay Hraka has a thought or so at Me Am Exercising Mine Franchise that makes sense. Obviously it'll never happen.
Lunch time is over, back to the jungle wars...
