Thursday, December 29, 2005

New Mexico Dilemma #1

In New Mexico, you must have a physical postal address in order to get a voter registration card. Since nearly ONE-THIRD of the people living in the state do not have a physical postal address, the electorate could be unbalanced and swayed one direction or another. State House Democrats will propose a method to fix the problem by allowing the use of map coordinates as physical addresses for not only voter registration, but emergency responders and disaster coordinators as well.

See Brad Feld's excellent Patriot Act Nonsense article for other ramifications of the federal government over-reaching under the guise of fighting terrorism.