On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:43:53 +0900, tm <tm@tmoero.invalid> brought
down from the Mount tablets inscribed:

>Michael Cash wrote:
>> Declan Murphy 
>> >Michael Cash wrote 
>> >>  "Shannon Jacobs" wrote:
>
>> >> >Well, there was one report of an absentee ballot coming last month, but 
>> >> >mine 
>> >> >is still missing in inaction. Yes, I registered (in Texas), and I also 
>> >> >sent 
>> >> >a specific form for the absentee ballot, but nothing yet. In previous 
>> >> >elections, the ballot has always arrived well before this time. Any other 
>> >> >reports out there?
>> >> >
>> >> >Maybe this is like the secret no-fly list? "Oh, you didn't know you were 
>> >> >on 
>> >> >the no-vote list? That'll teach you to watch that Michael Moore movie. 
>> >> >You 
>> >> >didn't know about our cameraman in Ebisu Garden, did you?" 
>> >> 
>> >> No, not time to panic. Time to be an informed voter:
>> >> 
>> >> http://www.fvap.gov/services/fwab.html
>> >> 
>> >> also see:
>> >> http://www.fvap.gov/pubs/vag/textvag/tx.txt
>> >> or
>> >> http://www.fvap.gov/pubs/vag/pdfvag/tx.pdf
>> >
>> >When I applied online for a postal vote for the recent Austrian poll I
>> >received (by snailmail via the Nagoya Oz consulate) ballot papers
>> >within 72 hours. I've never bothered to vote in Irish elections, so I
>> >have no other comparison. Can you think of any reason why sepponia
>> >would need a system for those who had applied and yet hadn't received
>> >papers after 30 days? Or why a "back-up"/FWAB system would be
>> >necessary in the first place? And FWIW, while I know that people such
>> >as yourself have your shit together, but for the Shannons of the
>> >sepponian world what is the problem?
>> 
>> 
>> Sepponian elections are conducted by the several states according to
>> their own laws. I don't know the details, but I would bet it was quite
>> a struggle to achieve even the modest degree of coordination which
>> allows for the FWAB.
>> 
>> I sent off for my ballot back in late August, I think it was. I like
>> to make sure it has time to get here, be filled out, and make the trip
>> back. And if it appears not to be coming, I have plenty of time to
>> contact the election officials in the county where I vote to track
>> down the problem and have the ballot resent.
>> 
>> I have no idea why the Shannons of the Sepponian world have a problem
>> with this.
>
>heh. I'm reading a lot of sarcasm in that last line.

You're reading a lot of self-restraint. I didn't see any point in
trying to come up with a pithy zinger for somebody who has me buried
deep in his killfile and will never see it. It wasn't worth the
effort.






--

Michael Cash

"I am sorry, Mr. Cash, but we are unable to accept your rap sheet in lieu of
a high school transcript."

                                Dr. Howard Sprague
                                Dean of Admissions
                                Mount Pilot College