🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <betatron-2C23F6.11434918112000@news.earthlink.net> Maxwell
Monningh, betatron@earthlink.net writes:
>March your anarchist butt down to 219 S. Dearborn, fifth floor, and talk 
>to one of Scott Lassar's people. If I caught someone eyeballing my 
>ballot, I certainly would. If you don't get any joy, wait until the new 
>administration takes over (I'm going out on a limb and suggesting the 
>bushbaby will win) and appoints a new US Atty.

I'd be, well, not half tempted, but maybe 10% tempted, except that as
I saw and as is being reported on the thread, this happened to EVERYONE.

Why should the person with the least trust in prosecutors be the one
to try to press a case with them, when it's obviously being tolerated
on a city-wide basis?  The way I see it, if I pressed the case, one of
three things could happen...

a) I could spend years and get a nominal reform to the rules, stating
that so-and-so doesn't eyeball the ballot, and then the Machine would
invent some other way of doing essentially the same thing within 24 hours.

b) I could lose the case and set a federal precedent that low-level 
election officials have the right to eyeball every ballot openly.

c) I could get prosecuted for leaving out my middle initial on a voter
registration card and then "fraudulently" voting, hence making the case
moot and unpursuable, have bizarre Democrat Machine Mafia people
pawing through my trash or threatening me with bodily harm, get sued
for slandering election officials by my observation, or all of the above.

Personally I'd bet on option (c), but I can't swear to it.
--
"Williams said the officer went to the car and found a mouse, which had
been injured and was bleeding.
The officer took the mouse to an animal hospital for treatment."
"6 Arrested in Rodent-Tossing Case", _The San Diego Union-Tribune_,
October 5, 2000
"Animal-rights groups have been watching the case and have told police
they want stiff punishment meted out, police said."