Unrelated Items and Thoughts For The Day

[cahwyguy]

• From the “Now We Know Who To Blame” Department: The news today brought word of the death of Norman Brinker. Never heard of him? Let me jog your memory. Ever gone to a restaurant and been greeted with “Hi, my name is Babs, and I'll be your waiteress tonight.” Blame Norman. Ever visited a salad bar? Blame Norman. Ever dined at Chili’s, Macaroni

Comments

[geah]

"Among the other items the governor suggests suspending are absentee ballots for voters..."

Right on, Governor!

[larymotrmn]

Absentee ballots are the only way some people have to vote. Some people are handicapped and physically can not get to a voting booth, others may not be able to get the time off of work. If you suspend absentee ballots you are denying these people their right to vote.

[geah]

I'm sure the handicapped and physically disabled will still get their absentee ballots.

The polls are open for 13 hours. People can get to them, if it's worth it to them. If it's not, I don't care about their vote any more than they do.

The fact is, absentee ballots are a wide open invitation to fraud. They should be legal, rare and safe.

[larymotrmn]

I'm sure the handicapped and physically disabled will still get their absentee ballots.

... They should be legal, rare and safe.

Isn't that a contradiction?

The fact is, although the polls are open for 13 hours, many professions have people work for 12 hours or more in a shift (e.g., doctors, policemen, firemen, railroad workers) making it impossible for them to get to a voting place. You would be taking away a person's right to vote.

[geah]

"The fact is, although the polls are open for 13 hours, many professions have people work for 12 hours or more in a shift (e.g., doctors, policemen, firemen, railroad workers) making it impossible for them to get to a voting place. You would be taking away a person's right to vote."

I doubt that many of those people who have a 12-hour shifts happen to have them perfectly correspond to the time the polls are open. But, for them, we can give them an absentee ballot.

I think voting should be a communal experience. As practically as possible and reasonable, we should all be voting on the same day. We shouldn't be voting on different days or via mail simply because many people are too lazy to make their way to the polling place on the designated day.

[cahwyguy]

The polls are open for 13 hours. People can get to them, if it's worth it to them. If it's not, I don't care about their vote any more than they do.

Unless, of course, they are on business travel, which would include all the folks in the military on duty in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.

[geah]

"Unless, of course, they are on business travel, which would include all the folks in the military on duty in places like Iraq and Afghanistan."

Oh, c'mon. No one is suggesting that people in the military shouldn't be able to vote because they're serving overseas.