Re: A very brief politcal rant

[petro]

  It's called "Straight Party", and IIRC it is a box on the
Missouri ballots. I *know* it was on the Illinois ballots. Saves dead
people time you understand, they only have a limited amount of time.

They removed it from the Illinois ballots 4 years ago.  It now takes me 10
times longer to vote.

I voted in Illinois 4 years ago, and I remember seeing it.

Then again, I only noticed it in passing, because if you 
voted straight party libertarian, you didn't get to vote against the 
incumbents in the races where there was no libertarian.
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Re: A very brief politcal rant

[R. A. Hettinga]

At 10:36 AM -0500 on 11/8/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 If the citizens of Missouri chose to elect a deceased person as Senator,
I think
 that's exactly what they should get.

Would that we were all so fortunate. Imagine, a whole senate full of dead
people. Well... empty seats representing dead people. Or something.

Missouri, the show me state, indeed.


Let's see, somebody could go around and collect petition signatures for
famous  ex-sons-of-Massachusetts. *Lots* of those. John Adams? Sam
Adams?... HmmmWhat was the name of the first colonist killed at Concord?


Oops.

Wait a minute. That would not, in fact, get the result we desire. In fact,
we'd get the worst of all possible worlds.

If I recall correctly, dead Republicans *don't* vote.

Only dead *Democrats* can do *that*...

;-).


Cheers,
RAH
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