[EL] Check out Albuquerque dog becomes registered voter | KOB.com

[Douglas Carver]

I checked into the blog very early this morning, before your post, and
had not checked back -- sorry for the repeat!

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu> wrote:
> Further, as I noted this morning, Wilson in particular has been connected to
> voter fraud allegations for some time and it has been used as a "wedge
> issue" to motivate the Republican base in New Mexico.
> Rick
>
>
> On 3/2/2012 11:33 AM, Douglas Carver wrote:
>
> The latest twist in the dog-voter story -- seems the dog is
> politically connected:
> http://www.progressnownm.org/blog/2012/03/breaking-heather-wilsons-staff-linked-to-illegal-voter-registration-scheme.html
>
> Barnaby asked why these stories keep showing up in Albuquerque --
> there is a core of activists here who keep trying to prove voter
> fraud, and our present Secretary of State keeps looking and keeps
> voter fraud in the news, but so far, they have come up empty.
>
> Douglas Carver
> Albuquerque, NM
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Jon Roland <jon.roland at constitution.org>
> wrote:
>
> If the dog was alive that is better than a dead human, some of which have
> been known to vote in Duval County, Texas.
>
> I've known dogs who would make better voting decisions than many humans
> would, and are more intelligent than some humans.
>
> Perhaps it is time to develop standards for personhood and voting
> citizenship that could include the most intelligent animals, robots, and any
> space alien, that can get born here and communicate with us. Perhaps some
> version of the Turing test. Among animals the leading candidates seem to be
> the anthropoid apes, some cetaceans, parrots, and octopi.
>
> Who knows? Maybe someday an octopus for president.
>
> -- Jon
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