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To: DownSouth who wrote (7849)11/9/2000 10:24:32 AM
From: Mike Buckley  Read Replies (1) of 22706
 
What could the voter do? "Umm, sir, could you give me another ballot? This one confused me."

Yes. That's exactly what the voter should do.

I hope someone doesn't call you absurd when your 80 years old, realize that you not what you used to be, and someone hands you something really important that everyone else in the US seems to have no trouble with, but you f*ck it up.

I need to clarify my statement about absurdity. It's absurd if someone who doesn't have the capacity to drive an automobile safely gets behind the sterring wheel and turns on the ignition. I realize that the individual doing so may be in a special situation in which others need to lend a helping hand to convince the person s/he shouldn't be driving, but the fact that a person incapable of safely driving a car is doing so is in my opinion an absurd act. Similarly, the same goes for the act of voting twice on a ballot. For me, there is a subtle but distinct difference between an absurd act and an absurd person (that requires explaining which unfortunately I did not initially offer).

I hope someone doesn't call you absurd when your 80 years old ...

Remembering the context of my above explanation, I never called anyone absurd. That doesn't mean the act of voting twice on the same ballot isn't absurd.

The ballot's absurdity caused confusion.

To call the ballot absurd is in my thinking an overstatement. Just because something is not as clear and immediately evident as it might otherwise be doesn't put it in the category of absurd. If that ballot is absurd, in what category would you put the IRS income tax forms?

--Mike Buckley
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