On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 21:44:17 GMT, 'Doc wrote:

I wonder if 'they' will hold up the 'taking of office' until
after all the 'provisional' ballots are counted? What if the
count should change to favor the 'looser'? Wonder why I am still
amazed to hear how the government has "solved" a problem?
'Doc

PS - It was a joke, right??

Hi Doc,

Hold up the "taking of office?" You mean like it got "took" before
(as you may recall, no votes above 9 counted)?

In the last election cycle we had a close race for Senate between
Maria Cantwell (D. challenger) and Slade Gorton (R. incumbent) and it
was the Absentee Ballot from the rural counties that gave Slade the
boot and that final count took some several weeks (following his
concession).

In fact, the final count hardly saw a ripple in the ballot calendar.
If you consider the Oregon vote, it is 100% Absentee Vote.

Today the new registrant count has pushed past 1700 with the focus
moving back into the well-heeled suburbs. Same enthusiastic
participation in a traffic of SUVs following me through the parking
lot while I was looking for the designated parking place (I'm driving
a 25 foot RV style mobile registration office for the Office of
Elections and Records).

It is not without its amusing moments, and its irritating moments.
Yesterday had me in a tide pool of University students (their moment
to catch up on registration once back on campus) and they were quite
inventive on how they thought voting should work (with some as lazy as
their parents in the 'burbs). Back in the 'burbs today and this
frantic b**ch demanding guarantees for her mother (at her side).
There was nothing I could offer that was satisfactory and she
dominated everyone's time to get her agenda cleared first. I put up
with that just so far and cut that loose; gave my spiel (the facts of
life and how to cope); and her mother shook my hand while daughter
went into melt-down.

Another fellow with a thick accent asked why we didn't check identity
papers. I explained that if we got more than 1 signature from the
same address and the same voter, he would be visited post-haste. He
then asked what kept a foreigner from voting, I responded "5 years in
the penitentiary."

There's your joke.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC