Comments on: Voting early and often http://election.princeton.edu/2009/06/22/vote-early-and-often/ A first draft of electoral history Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:35:25 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Nicholas J. Alcock http://election.princeton.edu/2009/06/22/vote-early-and-often/comment-page-1/#comment-3213 Nicholas J. Alcock Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:37:57 +0000 http://election.princeton.edu/?p=3156#comment-3213 Yes, Voting early, voting often is an extremely old British joke. The joke comes from ancient British electoral law which forbade voting more than once; Not that this ever prevented from voters in Northern Ireland from voting twenty times particularly those who were dead! Strangely enough, this reminds me of the 1960 U.S. presidential election where the turnout in Cook County, Chicago was also more than 100%. Isn't it interesting, how the world has copied American electoral malpractice? On an amusing note, after the Florida 2000 shambles Fidel Castro did offer to help The Great Republic in conducting democratic elections. And what a better person could you have in instructing you in democracy??? Yes,
Voting early, voting often is an extremely old British joke. The joke comes from ancient British electoral law which forbade voting more than once; Not that this ever prevented from voters in Northern Ireland from voting twenty times particularly those who were dead!

Strangely enough, this reminds me of the 1960 U.S. presidential election where the turnout in Cook County, Chicago was also more than 100%.

Isn’t it interesting, how the world has copied American electoral malpractice? On an amusing
note, after the Florida 2000 shambles Fidel Castro did offer to help The Great Republic in conducting democratic elections. And what a better person could you have in instructing you in democracy???

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