[lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 19:57:34 +0100
Saturday, May 28, 2005, 7:32:31 PM, John Wager wrote:
JW> Living in Chicago, I'm more familiar with the reverse of your example:
JW> Mayor Daley the elder made sure that there were LOTS of people who had
JW> the POWER to vote but did NOT have the right to vote!
:-) I forgot about him!
JW> Many of them lived outside the city; many voted twice or more. Hence
JW> the slogan in Chicago: "Vote early and vote often!"
I didn't know that came from Chicago, I love it! (I did know a lot of people in
cemeteries voted there...)
We Limeys have a postal voting scam Daley would have
loved, I'll see if I can find some links.
***
In some of those Southern States there were people with extra voting
"rights", I believe (registration as percentage, blacks, 5, whites, 120)
but I should really check that out.
Judy
JW> Judy Evans wrote:
>>Saturday, May 28, 2005, 2:13:21 PM, Phil Enns wrote:
>>
>>
>>JE> "I 'have the power to' vote and I have the right to vote."
>>
>>
>>
>>>The two are semantically equivalent. That is, one's right to vote is
>>>nothing more than the recognition by government that one can act to> vote.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I suppose this is my fault: I should have explained what I meant by
>>"power to vote", I didn't because it would have taken too long. I
>>haven't got the time to do it properly at the moment, so let me simply say
>>that
>>there are people who have the right to vote (in that they belong to
>>the category of people entitled to vote and are listed on the
>>electoral register) who are unable to vote for reasons of physical
>>disability combined with social isolation etc.
>>
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