Showing posts with label voting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label voting. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

An ongoing education of the American electorate in ways & means of voting

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The 2000 election cycle is the one that taught us about the “hanging chad,” and gave us a crash course in just how subjective the process of...
Tuesday, August 9, 2016

When is paranoia totally justified? Or, Get off yer lazy behind and Vote!!!

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My step-mother’s sister, Betty, literally wagged her finger in my face this weekend while telling me it was absolutely crucial that I turn ...
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Turnout will determine just who prevails on Tuesday’s Election Day

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By the time Tuesday night is complete, we ought to know who wins all these elections that have tried to dominate our attention span in rec...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Get off your lazy duffs to make sure you’re registered to vote come Feb. 24

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It’s my oft-stated belief that people who don’t bother to show up to vote come Election Day lose their right to complain about the ineptitud...
Thursday, October 30, 2014

Have gift cards replaced turkeys as 21st Century preference for buying a vote?

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It’s one of the oldest tactics for political people representing less-than-middle-class voters to try to get their electoral support – an al...
Friday, May 31, 2013

EXTRA: Perhaps Illinois legislators need a lesson on how to cast a vote

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Both the Illinois Senate and House of Representatives gave overwhelming votes of support on Friday for a measure permitting “concealed car...
Friday, May 17, 2013

A DAY IN THE LIFE (of Chicago): Rooting, for once, for the inmates

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This might be the one time that the ideologues of our society who like to rant and rage about us being “soft on crime” might have been roo...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Now, we look forward to 2014 election cycle (or is it ’16? Or maybe ’13 or '15?)

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The campaigning is over. The votes are cast. We can all now exhale and relax. No more election talk. These machines will be back soon en...