The first election I was eligible to vote in was 1972. I lived in Arizona at the time. Nixon and Humpfrey were tearing into one another and I had just registered to vote for the first time. I registered as a Democrat but when my voter registration card arrived in the mail it said I was a Republican. I really didn?t think much of it at the time. Sometimes typographic errors just happen and it?s nobody?s fault.
Shortly thereafter I was watching the local news and noticed a story that said there were about 17,000 new voters in the state of Arizona who were complaining that they too had registered as Democrats but got their voter registration back saying they were Republicans. I pretty much figured out that my voter registration wasn?t just a typo by some overworked secretary getting a little tired late at night sitting at a typewriter.
The reason I?m telling you this is because of a news story I saw this evening on my local news. I live in Oregon now, and have for roughly 20 years. A woman who lives about 3 miles from me got 2 mailings from the Republican Party containing an official request form for an absentee ballot from her old state. Take a wild guess what state it was. Yup, Florida! She said she has lived here and voted in
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