[Magdalen] Election Day

Jay Weigel jay.weigel at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 14:08:53 UTC 2016


That must be where the Hon. Richard J. Daley Sr. got the idea.

Jay, g/d/r

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Ferdinand von Prondzynski <
F.von-Prondzynski at rgu.ac.uk> wrote:

> Scott mused:
>
> > I often see that in videos of voting in other countries and wonder
> > whether Chicago would be as famous for "vote early and often" if we
> > had inked each voter here.
>
> ‘Vote early, vote often’ is a feature of Irish elections also. And there
> is (or was) a further elaboration of that feature. In the 1960s the then
> Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) declared that he didn’t mind the dead
> voting in elections, but he drew the line at a dead person voting twice.
>
> Ferdinand
>
>
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