CL wrote:
> Jim Breen wrote:
> 
> 
>>In Oz we have people outside polling places handing out cards for
>>the parties(*). It may have been relevant years ago, but now the
>>party affiliations are printed under the names on the ballot papers
>>so it's hardly necessary. No party wants to drop the practice or
>>they'll be labelled as not really trying. Also there are those
>>voters who don't actually make up their minds until they lurch
>>into the polling station.
>>
>>(*) except in Tasmania, where I think such cards are banned for
>>state elections.
> 
> In the US, passing anything out in front of a polling station is a good
> way to find yourself in front of a gentleman in black robes who will
> invite you to be a guest of the state for up to five years.  The laws
> may have changed, but where I grew up, bars have to close at sunrise on
> voting day and must remain closed until one hour after the polls have
> closed.

I always suspected Godzone was a scaled-up version of Tasmania.

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Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
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