Comments on: Voting and purging the rolls http://www.apartment2024.com/2008/04/26/voting-and-purging-the-rolls/ Food, family and synchronicity, in mostly equal parts Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:51:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Fran http://www.apartment2024.com/2008/04/26/voting-and-purging-the-rolls/#comment-83799 Fran Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:36:32 +0000 http://www.apartment2024.com/?p=963#comment-83799 My understanding is that the Democratic machine doesn't want all those dead people removed from the voting rolls. If they were removed, the party would be smaller and it would be harder for the Democrats to win elections...I've read in the Inquirer that a lot of those dead people still vote in various parts of the city... However, with John Dougherty not winning his primary this week, it makes me think that the machine is winding down. A move closer to honest elections in Philadelphia? My understanding is that the Democratic machine doesn’t want all those dead people removed from the voting rolls. If they were removed, the party would be smaller and it would be harder for the Democrats to win elections…I’ve read in the Inquirer that a lot of those dead people still vote in various parts of the city…

However, with John Dougherty not winning his primary this week, it makes me think that the machine is winding down. A move closer to honest elections in Philadelphia?

]]> By: howard http://www.apartment2024.com/2008/04/26/voting-and-purging-the-rolls/#comment-83777 howard Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:05:52 +0000 http://www.apartment2024.com/?p=963#comment-83777 I envy the proximity to your polling place you enjoy, though I am pleased that, for the first time in my life, my polling station is within brief walking distance. Obama didn't win the state (obviously), but he did do exceptionally well in the urban areas. So perhaps his reception by the Philly folks was indicative of that dynamic. While I don't care for the way political campaigns tend to go, the outcome of this one certainly has my interest piqued. I envy the proximity to your polling place you enjoy, though I am pleased that, for the first time in my life, my polling station is within brief walking distance.

Obama didn’t win the state (obviously), but he did do exceptionally well in the urban areas. So perhaps his reception by the Philly folks was indicative of that dynamic.

While I don’t care for the way political campaigns tend to go, the outcome of this one certainly has my interest piqued.

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