Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.glorb.com!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!pit-transit.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Jim Breen Reply-To: jimbreen@gmail.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8-1.1.fc4 (X11/20060501) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: I am nooz reportar References: <292m95hmto8r9s4vuth4o4tsdlvbjspqel@4ax.com> <461nm.15136$ze1.11142@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <53165dbd-9833-4612-a164-60094d8a97e6@y28g2000prd.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 29 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:13:32 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 58.161.12.15 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1251886412 58.161.12.15 (Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:13:32 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:13:32 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:168448 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. -- Jim Breen http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/ Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学