nonetheless, there’s apparently a bit of a new election-time voter registration scandal, just in time to reassure us all of the validity of the system:

Some 46,000 New Yorkers are registered to vote in both the city [of New York] and Florida, a shocking finding that exposes both states to potential abuses that could alter the outcome of elections, a [New York] Daily News investigation shows.

Registering in two places is illegal in both states, but the massive snowbird scandal goes undetected because election officials don’t check rolls across state lines.

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… The News found that between 400 and 1,000 registered voters have voted twice in at least one election, a federal offense punishable by up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

meh. i guess i can’t really be bothered to care much about a thousand shitheads who are trying to be sneaky. i mean, yeah, fine them — i’m sure we can use the money — but i guess i just don’t see a whole big scandal about this.

of course i’m not without sneaky thoughts myself; i have considered registering to vote in texas instead, because sometimes i think that it would be more useful to vote on local issues there that affect the land that i own (taxes, etc), rather than voting for which idiotstick alderman is going to complain about wal-mart here next. i didn’t consider voting twice, though. see, i’m too inefficient and not nearly ambitious enough; i never think about the big picture! just think about the things i could achieve with one whole extra vote!

blah.

ftr, i do think it would be nice if you could have, say, a “local-only” alternate vote option, so that i could vote in federal elections only in one place, but then i could vote state and municipally anywhere i have residence. that would make me happy. not that it’ll ever happen.