Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/02

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Subject: [Leica] 90 minutes in support of Democracy
From: enitka1 at comcast.net (ernie nitka)
Date: Tue Nov 2 10:32:36 2004
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I was impressed by the number of young people voting.  Many with piercings 
( I have nothing against piercings ) - which is not a site that I'm used to 
seeing.  From my very unscientific vantage point I think we are likely to 
see whole segments of the population voting for the first time.

ernie

At 11:19 AM 11/2/2004, you wrote:
>Took all of 5 minutes for me to vote this morning.  The polling place
>is about 1/2 mile from my house in an old mill.  There were more
>observers than voters.
>
>The funniest part is that I'm in the voter register twice - once with
>just my first initial and once with my first name spelled out.
>Apparently they never deleted my old registration when I switched from
>registered Independent to registered Green Party.  Since they don't
>check identification, only verifying your signature, and both
>signatures are mine, I could, if I was so inclined, vote twice.  Of
>course, the same poll workers will likely be there all day and they'd
>recognize me if I showed up again.  I've been in the register twice
>for years now.  I've pointed it out, but no one seems terribly
>concerned and it never gets corrected.
>
>Glenn Stauffer
>_______________________________________________
>Leica Users Group.
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