Comments on: Live pigs, dead pigs, and disenfranchised voters

By: Moralia - Rituals human and divine

Moralia - Rituals human and divine — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:49:04 +0000

[...] (whom you can read in the American Spectator as well as at his blog) recently quoted a post of mine in which I wrote, The thing secular leftists don’t seem to get is that perfection just [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:35:43 +0000

Can you give a single reason not to allow same-day registration?

Here are the pros: If some clerk somewhere screwed up your registration, or if the post office lost it, you can correct it on the spot when you vote.

Here are the cons:

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:58:16 +0000

You don’t have to make two trips to the polling place. You can get a voter registration form at the post office or the public library or probably even online, though I haven’t checked. Then you put it in a mailbox. Since when do you have to go to the polling place to register to vote? Oh, and then there are all those tables outside grocery stores with people taking voter registration. I’ve even had people with clipboards stop me as I was walking across the Plaza to see if I wanted to register. I guess if you never go to the post office, the library or the grocery store, then maybe registering would be a problem.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:50:46 +0000

I think its pretty obvious that if we can save voters the extra effort of having to make two trips to the polling place – one to vote and one to register – it is a more perfect process. I have yet to see any real argument against same-day registration.

I personally reregistered *twice* this year and they still didn’t manage to update my street address after moving last year. As a result I didn’t get to vote in my state house or senate races.

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:40:09 +0000

Dan, I don’t think you got this post. The point is that any deadline and arbitrary and therefore the process is never going to be perfect. How, exactly, do you want to correct the process to make it more perfect?

Also, Brigette didn’t take any potshots at Richard Dawkins. She just used his spaghetti monster metaphor to illustrate a point.

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Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:50:54 +0000

[...] Comment on Live pigs, dead pigs, and disenfranchised voters by US… …by Dan Yes, the election process is imperfect – I don’t see why that means we can’t seek to … immutable and aren’t stated in the US… [...]

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Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:43:45 +0000

[...] Comment on Live pigs, dead pigs, and disenfranchised voters by Dan Yes, the election process is imperfect – I don’t see why that means we can’t seek to … immutable and aren’t stated in the US Constitution [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:04:31 +0000

I’m not sure I understand the point of this post. Yes, the election process is imperfect – I don’t see why that means we can’t seek to correct flaws in it. The registration deadlines as now stated aren’t immutable and aren’t stated in the US Constitution, so why not endeavor to improve them? The Poll Tax used to be a rule too, and we got rid of that.

The rest of your post seems like handwaving to me – pointing at things you don’t like like Richard Dawkins and (for some reason) Chuck Hagel. I don’t see how corrupt or insufficiently conservative politicians relate to improving the election process to ensure that citizens can vote.

By: US Election On Best Political Blogs » Blog Archive » Live pigs, dead pigs, and disenfranchised voters

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:11:09 +0000

[...] Live pigs, dead pigs, and disenfranchised voters …or her right to vote…then the process is clearly … the election of people like Ted Stevens and Chuck Hagel and Harry Reid and even — God… [...]