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mercator_psi [TotalFark] 2008-05-15 01:35:42 PM  
Pity for Hillary. Dead old women are her core demo.

 
WaltzingMathilda [TotalFark] 2008-05-15 01:37:39 PM  
non-story. FTA: the vote won't count.

 
BiffDangler 2008-05-15 01:38:14 PM  
Of course, this is why the dems are opposed to having to show ID at the polls. The dead are a core constituency.

 
Browncoat 2008-05-15 01:39:18 PM  
www.law.umkc.edu

Approves.

 
Surool [TotalFark] 2008-05-15 01:40:41 PM  
Zombie supports dead campaign.

/waits for Hillary's speech trying to convince everyone that we "can't disenfranchise the dead"

 
Bullseye_blam 2008-05-15 01:41:01 PM  
This is the problem with having your base consistuency being OLD AS FARK.

 
spiderpaz 2008-05-15 01:41:07 PM  
HA HA!

 
Wrong_Intentions 2008-05-15 01:41:55 PM  
Why not? Hell, the Republicans are betting on a candidate who'll likely be dead of old age for part of his term.

 
Tenebreux 2008-05-15 01:42:31 PM  
Not News: Woman voted for Hillary. Fark: After she died

News: Woman voted for Hillary
Not news: After she had already died.
Fark: And has her vote revoked, because well.. she's dead.

Subby fails.

 
lunchinlewis [TotalFark] 2008-05-15 01:45:13 PM  
Tenebreux: Subby fails.

but it makes a neat sounding greenlit headline!

 
palelizard 2008-05-15 01:45:20 PM  
How do they know she voted for Clinton if the envelope doesn't get opened?

 
Abner Doon 2008-05-15 01:45:49 PM  
Tenebreux: <i>Not News: Woman voted for Hillary. Fark: After she died</i>

News: Woman voted for Hillary
Not news: After she had already died.
Fark: And has her vote revoked, because well.. she's dead.

Subby fails.


Huh? That makes even less sense than the headline.

 
agoratrader 2008-05-15 01:46:28 PM  
Someone post Chris Farley in Blacksheep reference, I'm too lazy.

 
Edsel 2008-05-15 01:46:41 PM  
palelizard: How do they know she voted for Clinton if the envelope doesn't get opened?

We're talking about an old dead woman here. Who do you think she voted for?

 
Fark Lord of the Sith 2008-05-15 01:48:02 PM  
Edsel: palelizard: How do they know she voted for Clinton if the envelope doesn't get opened?

We're talking about an old dead woman here. Who do you think she voted for?


Dewey?

 
Dufus [TotalFark] 2008-05-15 01:48:55 PM  
For goodness sakes... Here is south Louisiana I have seen dead people vote three times in the same election in each of four precincts. They were dedicated voters, I guarantee.

 
HillbillyBubba [TotalFark] 2008-05-15 01:49:01 PM  
Edsel: We're talking about an old dead woman here. Who do you think she voted for?

I'm guessing Kennedy at some point.

 
bwesb 2008-05-15 01:49:22 PM  
She doesn't have a pulse. How does that make her any different from the rest of the HillBill supporters? Or HillBill's campaign?

 
quetzl jity 2008-05-15 01:49:55 PM  
www.americanheritage.com

Approves.

 
HillbillyBubba [TotalFark] 2008-05-15 01:52:54 PM  
Does anyone find it ironic that we as the model for all other democracies are given every opportunity to vote yet fail to do so in shameful numbers? I really wonder what the political landscape would look like if people woke up, gave a damn, and began voting based on real issues.

/Congrats to Grandma, I say.
//Now get off her lawn plot.

 
Moses To Sandy Koufax 2008-05-15 01:53:44 PM  
Dead men tell no tales, but they sure as hell vote Democratic.

 
kidddynamite 2008-05-15 01:55:29 PM  
"Hey, where da white women at?"


www.movieactors.com

 
TheMysteriousStranger 2008-05-15 01:55:36 PM  
It seems to be a waste of money. So long as they are alive when they fill out the ballot, seal the ballot, and when the signing/notarizing of the forms required is done, I don't see why the vote should not count.

Besides if a close local election where it is known I am a support a certain candidate are we going to allow some bozo neutralize my vote with a bullet?

 
Diogenes [TotalFark] 2008-05-15 01:59:08 PM  
I knew Ms. Steen would regret saying she'd vote for Hillary over her dead body.

 
hej 2008-05-15 01:59:20 PM  
Not News: Woman voted for Hillary.
Fark:Still not news: After she died

 
The Glass Dragon 2008-05-15 02:03:08 PM  
upload.wikimedia.org

Do not approve.

 
Timdesuyo 2008-05-15 02:07:15 PM  
I thought the Illinois Primary was already over...

/I hate Illinois Nazis.

 
IXI Jim IXI [TotalFark] 2008-05-15 02:12:26 PM  
I guess they're not looking for braiinssss after all.

 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark] 2008-05-15 02:13:10 PM  
Damn, for a minute I thought the headline meant Hillary was dead.

 
brakiachi 2008-05-15 02:16:03 PM  
TheMysteriousStranger
Besides if a close local election where it is known I am a support a certain candidate are we going to allow some bozo neutralize my vote with a bullet?

Yes.

 
SnoreCriminal 2008-05-15 02:25:25 PM  
Hillary? Cheating in an election?

It's more likely than you think.

/drtfa

 
wheresourfish 2008-05-15 02:26:04 PM  
So, what you're saying here, is that this woman gave the ultimate "Fark you!" knowing that she was going to die, and try to help stick us with Clinton?

+1 to grandma, for the effort
-100 for having her "Fark you!" backfire.

Hey grandma, Fark you! You fail!

 
Paedophile_Deluxe 2008-05-15 02:29:33 PM  
TheMysteriousStranger: It seems to be a waste of money. So long as they are alive when they fill out the ballot, seal the ballot, and when the signing/notarizing of the forms required is done, I don't see why the vote should not count.

Besides if a close local election where it is known I am a support a certain candidate are we going to allow some bozo neutralize my vote with a bullet?


Yes, because a nutjob who is willing to kill to get someone elected will hunt down individual voters rather than just killing the opponents.

 
palelizard 2008-05-15 02:34:48 PM  
Edsel: palelizard: How do they know she voted for Clinton if the envelope doesn't get opened?

We're talking about an old dead woman here. Who do you think she voted for?


The cat isn't dead until I open the box.

 
jram 2008-05-15 02:44:23 PM  
NEED HELP!! farkers im dealing with a religious lot that are vs obama. heres the email they sent me and i need to answer these questions.


I want to point out a few things regarding this message. The "death count" has already been addressed.

1. Mr. Obama's race has no bearing on my opinion of him. I would vote for Alan Keyes in a heartbeat and he is an obviously black man.

2. War for oil? We have been at war with Iraq to some extent since the first Gulf War. Saddam agreed to certain conditions for us to stop advancing. He failed to honor his agreement. Here is JOHN KERRY addressing the president (CLINTON) on the Senate floor. He is expressing his GRAVE concern about Saddam's persistent, consistent, flagrant DEFIANCE of multiple UN resolutions going back for years. This address is dated October 1998 (that's pre-Bush). This shows a clear climate/mentality in Washington of deep concern about Iraq. It is long and I encourage those interested to read through the whole thing. This quote is just his wrap-up.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/congress/1998_cr/s981010-iraq.htm


In February, when we had an armada positioned in the gulf, President Clinton said that `one way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.'

The fact is, Mr. President, over these last months there has been precious little to prevent Saddam Hussein from developing that capacity without the inspectors there and without the unwavering determination of the United Nations to hold him accountable. So the question still stands, What is our policy and what are we prepared to do about it?



There are sources that say there were, in fact, WMDs. There are sources denying it. There are sources saying Saddam had no connection with 9/11. There are sources detailing multiple connections between Saddam and 9/11. We "lay" people simply don't know, though I'd trust Bush before I trusted Saddam.



3. Comparing soldiers' deaths to abortion is rather odd. The only way that could be comparable is the very real scenario where a "militant" approaches the soldiers without warning with a bomb strapped to him/herself. In fact, that may be very much like abortion. The "victim" is not currently engaged in combat and, without warning, is shredded to bits. War deaths that result from combat are certainly not the same as abortion deaths.



4. I can't figure out from your comments what sexual abuse you are talking about. If it is the clergy "abuse scandal" please clarify so I (and others) can adequately respond.



5. Disappearing girls?? what was that girls name that had an affair with a senator and vanished?



6. I'm certain that Obama's school teacher plan would not agree with my own. I think the Dep. of Education should be dismantled. I think that the government has no right to consider itself the "default" educator of our young souls. I don't think the government should be involved in education at all.

 
poot_rootbeer 2008-05-15 02:44:27 PM  
HillbillyBubba: I really wonder what the political landscape would look like if people woke up, gave a damn, and began voting based on real issues.

Unless they're going to do ALL THREE, I'd rather that the half of the eligible public that doesn't vote continue to stay home on Election Day.

 
meat0918 2008-05-15 02:45:21 PM  
bad subby, implying that a fine upstanding citizen like Hillary would dare to have dead people vote.

That is sooooo a Chicago politician thing...


//too much?

 
Time Traveler 2008-05-15 02:46:40 PM  
punditkitchen.wordpress.com

 
Elmo Jones 2008-05-15 02:56:36 PM  
mercator_psi: Pity for Hillary. Dead old women are her core corpse demo.

/feral peeve

 
paratactical 2008-05-15 02:57:19 PM  
From Hillaryis44.com

NewMexicoFan Says:

May 15th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
So how many times does a Presidential Candidate have to demean women, before his loyal subject realize what he is doing. Many have college degrees. Of course he apologized, so his followers think it is OK. Isn't that what a wife beater does, so the women stay with him?

I just had to bring that up.



This just in--- Obama:Voters::Wife Beater:Wife

And the Fark vote is locked in.

 
ihatedumbpeople 2008-05-15 02:57:35 PM  
Duh. Dead people can't vote. She was dead before votes are counted, if you don't make it until election day, too bad.

 
NoKeyNoPlan 2008-05-15 03:03:15 PM  
Hillary is apparently using the "Sideshow Bob" election strategy.


Approves:
upload.wikimedia.org

 
GanjSmokr 2008-05-15 03:17:37 PM  
hej: Not News: Woman voted for Hillary.
Fark:Still not news: After And then she died.

 
andrewagill 2008-05-15 03:22:04 PM  
NoKeyNoPlan: Hillary is apparently using the "Sideshow Bob" election strategy.

Why Not Let Dead Pets Vote?

 
Obdicut [TotalFark] 2008-05-15 03:26:40 PM  
BiffDangler: Of course, this is why the dems are opposed to having to show ID at the polls. The dead are a core constituency.

How would showing ID at the polls prevent this?

 
madmann [TotalFark] 2008-05-15 03:36:25 PM  
Well, how about if her vote was for Zombie Reagan? Aren't we taking a big chance when we disenfranchise the entire brain-activity-challenged demographic? They may decide to just not vote in future elections!

If dead people can't vote for dead people, isn't that a little... lifeist?

/brain-activity-challenged isn't quite right....
/"differently decomposing"?
/"hard of breathing"?
/"Enhanced oldness"?

 
docmattic 2008-05-15 03:38:27 PM  
Obdicut: BiffDangler: Of course, this is why the dems are opposed to having to show ID at the polls. The dead are a core constituency.

How would showing ID at the polls prevent this?


Good point. Especially since my driver's license photo makes me look like a zombie anyways.

 
yagottabefarkinkiddinme 2008-05-15 03:48:11 PM  
Many dead on voter rolls, dead that actually show up to vote in an election is old school. Now they have Diebold.

 
Sefton 2008-05-15 03:48:55 PM  
Hillary died?

/ your participle
// it be dangling

 
DaSwankOne 2008-05-15 03:55:02 PM  
Moses To Sandy Koufax: Dead men tell no tales, but they sure as hell vote Democratic.

So do "good" jews

 
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