4th of July Hypocricy (was: OT Celebration)

From: joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Fri Jul 6 09:25:10 2001

At 10:05 AM 7/6/01 +0930, you wrote:


> > I think the most offensive law in Oz is the requirement that all
>citizens vote.
>
>Mixed reaction to that here. At least the govt is elected by virtually
>all of the eligible voters.
>It's mildy amusing that less than half of eligible voters in US
>elections actually bother to vote.


      FWIW in the last election, some precients here in Florida had more
than a 97% turnout. My person opinion, if someone is too lazy to register
and/or vote I don't want them voting anyway. In the last election, the
democrats realized that they were in trouble here in Florida and they
issued a last minute plea for more "mininories" to get out and vote at the
last minute. That's what lead to a lot of the voter confusion and
un-counted votes. Many of those last minute voters had never registered
and most of them didn't even know that they had to go to a voting place IN
THEIR OWN DISTRICT. They simply went to the first voting palce that they
found and DEMANDED to vote. Of course, they were turned away and told that
they had to vote in their own district but since they hadn't bothered to
even find out were that was they ran out of time before they could vote.

      Joe
Received on Fri Jul 06 2001 - 09:25:10 BST