shouldn't we all be a little dismayed by the preponderance of logistical mishaps with the early voting (i.e., people having to wait in long and time-consuming lines?) why don't we have the infrastructure in place to handle 100% voter turnout? i mean, couldn't we put a bunch of people to work constructing electoral infrastructure? it'd like, encourage participatory democracy and crap.
evil r + b guy could hang weird "murals," and in return be paid $47,500.
Monday, November 3, 2008
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For a moment Lex forgets that we still live in George Bush's America.
To expand on the comments of the gentleman from Local 3544, surely this is because one of the political parties has both a practical and an ideological interest in ensuring that fewer than 100% of eligible voters cast ballots.
Unrelatedly, anybody got a handle on the number of african american men excluded from the electorate on account of having a felony conviction? My best guess is two million, but I'd be curious to see actuall figures.
Showing my work: 5.3 million convicted felons multiplied by .4, since 40% of the prison population is african american. But that assumes that the prison population has the same demographics as the convicted felon population, which seems like a dubious assumption.
I find the most sense in Dr's comment, but I also wonder what the common polling office budget is for the states that have mail in ballots versus the states that have these long and sometime all day lines....
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