From: Spike (spike66@comcast.net)
Date: Thu Sep 04 2003 - 20:46:25 MDT
Already I fail my resolution to avoid posting on
any political topic. Stifling the urge to post
about the current state governor quagmire has raised
my blood pressure by about an atmosphere. OK just
this one, then its back to strict list discipline.
Spike writes:
>
> Brett, the disembodied brain needs to come to
> Taxifornia. One need not be a legal person
> to vote here.
>Wow! I'm treating this as serious (but bearing in mind I'm talking to
>the spikester)...Brett
You are too kind, Brett, but in this case, yes I am
serious. In the last election I noted that the poll
workers were asking for only signatures when picking
up the ballots, but were not doing *any* checking
against previous signatures. I produced my driver's
license, which they refuse to look at, and informed
me that they were specifically *forbidden* to request
*any* personal identification, at which time I asked
what measures, if any, were being taken to discourage
massive voter fraud. There were absolutely none.
The discussion began to grow mildly heated, as I pointed
out that the results of this "election" were nothing
more than a casual opinion poll, except with a higher
uncertainty rating and muuuuch higher stakes. Then I
realized I was preaching to the choir. These were simply
innocent volunteer poll workers, so there was no point
in spoiling their day.
Historians may now claim that the current president
won the election by a landslide because the results
from Taxifornia were invalid.
On the bright side, Our governor is hoping to save his
job by allowing illegal immigrants to get a valid
Taxifornia driver's license. They have pulled out the
requirement for fingerprints or any other biometric,
(privacy concerns and all that) so all I need to do is claim
to be an illegal immigrant from Canada in order to get
a convenient second drivers license with another ID number
and address for use whenever I am pulled over by the
boys in blue. Those who have lost driver's privileges
for any reason can do likewise, then transfer the
license to another state in order to avoid a cloud
of suspicion, like all Taxifornia licenses will soon
have.
Ah, my blood pressure has just dropped by several hundred
torr, just venting that one paragraph. {8-]
spike
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