Dead voting
May. 13th, 2003 11:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidIn Louisiana, you may be able to have your vote count after you're dead. Of course, you'd have to fill out your absentee ballot while alive, first. Or at least, that's what the new law proposes (news stories here and here, among other places).
Predictably, there are the cries of "dead people voting," but, technically, they're voting while alive, it's just that the ballot isn't counted until they're dead. And it does make it easier/more equitable, not to have to track who might've used an absentee ballot and has died since voting.
Of course, this just makes me think of odd horror stories where carefully-dressed-up but slightly moldy undead people with long hair and fingernails come to polling places at twilight. Are they one-issue voters? (perhaps on cemetery reform? or new services for the dead?) Hm...
I saw a staged reading of Freezing Mrs. Frankenheimer (Jonathan Mirin) last night, and ran into some friends of Cthulhia's there. I got a ride partway home with them, which was rather nice of them, as well as convenient for me.
I brought in the other greenery I'd designated for the office. Now I have basil, nasturtium, red butter leaf lettuce, chives, two Boston lettuces, and two red leaf lettuces. That should be enough for now, I think.
[1335 addendum: Something about having all those different leaf shapes right here to look at is really cool.]
Is anyone else have difficulties getting onto Boston.com today?
Predictably, there are the cries of "dead people voting," but, technically, they're voting while alive, it's just that the ballot isn't counted until they're dead. And it does make it easier/more equitable, not to have to track who might've used an absentee ballot and has died since voting.
Of course, this just makes me think of odd horror stories where carefully-dressed-up but slightly moldy undead people with long hair and fingernails come to polling places at twilight. Are they one-issue voters? (perhaps on cemetery reform? or new services for the dead?) Hm...
I saw a staged reading of Freezing Mrs. Frankenheimer (Jonathan Mirin) last night, and ran into some friends of Cthulhia's there. I got a ride partway home with them, which was rather nice of them, as well as convenient for me.
I brought in the other greenery I'd designated for the office. Now I have basil, nasturtium, red butter leaf lettuce, chives, two Boston lettuces, and two red leaf lettuces. That should be enough for now, I think.
[1335 addendum: Something about having all those different leaf shapes right here to look at is really cool.]
Is anyone else have difficulties getting onto Boston.com today?