>>>What John is doing is aiming at a fair and impartial system, as far as I can tell. If he can pull this off, it will be a superb thing for his area. Maybe it'll even be the start of a movement. Alice's Restaurant Massacree in Four Part Harmony. I'd love to see it sweep the entire voting system.
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>>Are you implying that the US voting system is imperfect?
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>Well, if the truth be told, likely no less than ours. Ok, we don't have anything as dumb as the electoral college, but for dead people voting etc, I doubt we're any better off. Then again, we are a more liberal country, so we probably wouldn't be as opposed to dead people voting as John is.

Good points.

Here in Chicago, probably the capital of corrupt elections and politicians, the right of the dead to go on voting is well established. "Vote early and often" is the popular phrase, and being ambulatory is not a strict requirement.

"I am an American, Chicago born -- Chicago, that somber city -- and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles."

That is the memorable first paragraph of Saul Bellow's "The Adventures of Augie March" and probably describes Chicago politics better than it has ever been described, at least this side of Mike Royko, even though he wasn't writing about Chicago politics.