Oh dear. Is it okay if I find it just a wee bit amusing, Barb?

Honestly, I'd probably find it funny as hell—if it wasn't my own mother. And if I hadn't lived through this pattern time and again. Foolishly, I'd hoped she'd grown beyond this.

Clearly, foolishly.

No wonder I never was a wild child. Who could compete?

Oh, while I'm still wearing my "oh, hai, I'm a total elections dork!!" hat, I really don't like the term "voter fraud" as it's commonly thrown around in recent years -- it's pretty much a scare tactic to try to delegitimize a lot of perfectly cromulent votes (or intimidate a lot of perfectly cromulent voters before they even try), when actual fraud is really very rare. Not Updating Your Address, or Showing Up At The Wrong Precinct, are human screwups; actual fraud is stuff like voting while dead, or registering lots of people who are dead, or hacking voting machines to stuff them with the names of the dead, and is usually a political machine problem rather than a person-showing-up-wrong problem. Also, happy Halloween.

registering lots of people who are dead

And then having them vote. No one is disenfranchised by non-people or the undead registering.

thanks, amych. OC registrar was totally unhelpful but I got through to LA County and they said it's totally OK for me to vote at my old address.

No one is disenfranchised by non-people or the undead registering.

Fair point. It's really hard to get the zombies to reliably turn out in large numbers on election day. (All-absentee states, your experiences may be different.)

It's really hard to get the zombies to reliably turn out in large numbers on election day.

If the crime bosses would follow through on their promises of Brainsssssss for Votessssss, they'd be rocking the polls.

It's really hard to get the zombies to reliably turn out in large numbers on election day.

I don't know...my experience standing in line at the polling place last time seems to disprove this.

I'm not sure I'm allowed to vote this time. I was never registered in DC or Louisiana -- I always voted absentee in New Jersey, which the rules said was OK, since I was in school. But I moved to PA just a little while before the deadline to register here, and I didn't get my forms in on time. But I'm not living in NJ anymore, and I haven't been in school for two months, so I don't think I can vote absentee there, either.

(All-absentee states, your experiences may be different.)

Have you ever tried to get a zombie to put a stamp on something?!?

If the crime bosses would follow through on their promises of Brainsssssss for Votessssss, they'd be rocking the polls.

How about a platform of outlawing baseball bats and chainsaws!