JohnnyComeLately's Journal: Just when you think it couldn't get worse than danglin chads

Yahell is running a story about the different variations of dead people voting. In Florida, a woman who mails in her absentee ballot on the same day a soldier in Iraq does will see different outcomes if they both died before the election. Who's vote doesn't count? The soldiers. Yet his buddy who died right next to him, who is from Tennessee (apologies if I get the state wrong...read the article) DOES get his vote counted from absentee ballot.

Not that any of these freak voting scenarios really matter one way or the other to me, but I thought it was a bizarre twist.

Again, my apologies for a political JE. Man, I can't wait until Nov 4 (since the lawyers will be muckying everything up Nov 3). Only thing is, I REALLY don't want to listen to Kerry talk for 4 or 8 years. I was thankful when Gore lost because I didn't want to feel "lectured to" for 4 years (plus package deal with Tipper and the record labeling...yes I'm still irritated by that...and yes...that was back in 1985 or so).

Lawyers lawyers lawyers

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The lawyers are probably going to end up deciding this election anyway - between dead people voting, the large number of military that are overseas that cast ballots that somehow don't make it in in time to get counted, and the stupid effing Amendment 36 in my home state of Colorado - unless there ends up being a landslide one way or another I don't see how the lawyers aren't going to get involved.

The article you pointed out irritated me to no end - for obvious reasons, I think.

I really thought Gore was t