One person, one vote? Not necessarily in Kansas and Missouri

[Snazzy]

Posted on Sun, Sep. 05, 2004





One person, one vote? Not necessarily in Kansas and Missouri

BY GREG REEVES

Knight Ridder Newspapers


KANSAS CITY, Mo. - (KRT) - In today's often tight elections, every vote counts. But a Kansas City Star investigation has found that for some people, locally and across Missouri, their vote counts double - because they voted twice in the same election.

Some vote in Kansas, cross the state line and vote again in Missouri. Others appear to be voting in two different Missouri counties.

Either way, it's a crime. In Missouri, casting two separate ballots in the same election is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. It can also result in federal charges.

"I was wrong in what I did," said James D. Scherzer, an attorney who acknowledged to the newspaper that he voted in Kansas City and Kansas City, Kan., in the August 2000 primary election.

Then he did it again in elections in November 2000, August 2002 and November 2002.

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http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/nation/9590812.htm

[Liberal Veteran]

1. He should have his voting rights stripped for life.

Sorry...that's the way I feel about that.

[Pegleg Thd]

2. Bet that he

is a redneck repukelican!!!:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

[natrat]

3. dont be sorry

i feel like anyone involved with vote fraud should be charged with treason

[Yupster]

6. I agree

Anyone can be registered in two places at once due to an oversite or mixup, or laziness, but everyone knows you can't vote twice in the same election.

Throw the book at them.

[nosmokes]

4. vote early, vote often...

a rallying cry that used to be heard often in chicago and new orleans. KC's a new one to me.

they got some crazy little women there...

[Fovea]

5. KC has history

with election fraud and violence going back into the 19th century. It went crypto in the 40s, after Boss Tom's machine went down. But the 'reform' administrations that have replaced it have not always served the average citizen well.

The current mayor, Kay Barnes has put a lot of political currency into the re-urbanisation of KC, noting that only Atlanta surpasses us in Sprawl, and urban highway milage to maintain. Kansas City proper is also well situated for both business and residency. A new philosophy is driving Barnes's plan, and I hope it succeeds. It is the idea of the city as a place that is not just about more parking space.
It will deal with parking in the periphery, and move people into downtown will less congestion, more pedestrianism and a core public transit system revamp. I think that her plan may be the savior of KC.


But the exurbs are an exceptionally NIMBY filled cupcake land.
Johnson County in particular (Called 'land o' beige' by many) is still spilling outward, like cheap insulation foam. They think it is wasteful and unworkable -- things like a new downtown arena. Traditionally, the elections for public works in KC were democratic party machine operations. Ironically, Republicans orginally represented reform against election time shenanigans.

Oil Price shock here is severe, as the SUV is ubiquitous. I think much of the recent backlash mentality in KS that Frank talks about is the realization that suburbia is a trap. A sprawling wasteland of massive, underbuilt McMansions, whose values will pummit with the price of energy's steep rise, and whose locations were actually far more valuble to the region as a source of corn and soybean, not to mention cattle. The scarcity model of oil product pricing is going to hit exurban KC like a sledge hammer blow to a hereford.



Kansas City feels the outsourcing, and the fall of telecom, and it is afraid. The University has virtually slash and burned everyting htat is not biomedical studies, because everybody 'knows' that it is the next big thing.

Of course, it is the next big thing for communities that are allowed to teach Natural Selection, as opposed to Divine Science. So KC is an angry place, with a lot in the wind, politically. The state line with howling mad Kansas is becoming a bigger deal all the time.

And it is still not clear why Big Pharma is going to be profitable when no one can afford medical care. The system is already collapsing because it does not have enough patients in it.

Kansas City's railroad nexus, and the major industrial areas that are mostly fallow now, will be a new goldmine when transit costs show the limits and weaknesses of globalisation. In the future, more things will be made closer to home, because it is cheaper to make than to ship, in absoute terms. When that happens, Downtown will be a hoppin place. But before that, another economic crash and maybe a bit of shootin and other loud noises.

Hang on, here it comes...

But in this story, we will see lots of Elepants and Donkeys. And probably some Donkephants as well.

[Peregrine]

7. I was raised in KC

and have thought of returning. But it has been more than 2 decades since I left, or even been back to visit. When I left Bolling was my rep, Teasdale was Gov, Eagleton was in the senate, and Clarence Kelly left for the FBI. It seems alot has happened since I lived there.

[Fovea]

8. Some thing stay the same...

Charlie Wheeler is Missouri Senator for KC.
Walt Bodine is still on the radio.
After decades of Laissez Faire malignant growth,
the city's redevelopment is being planned.
It may not be a perfect plan, but it is better than malign neglect.

Little by little, it is even getting to be a better cycling town.
And compared to Johnson County's meandering sameness, the city is quite vital.

[0007]

9. This attorney should be disbarred and heavily fined.