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[UPDATED 10/31/08 – 1452 MDT] The Colorado Secretary of State’s office has just released updated figures (Excel spreadsheet; PDF file) as of 4 am this morning for early voting and mail-in ballots. Here are the totals: Democrats: 488,575 (54.1% of “active registered voters”; 63.3% of MIBs returned) Republicans: 465,869 (52.2% of “active registered voters”; 65.0% […]
In my earlier post, I noted several potential problems with the Colorado mail-in ballots (which have been requested by 62% of “active, registered voters” in Colorado). Today’s Rocky Mountain News reports yet another potential problem with these ballots: More than 35,000 newly registered Colorado voters could see their mail ballots tossed out because of confusion […]
For the past two days I have been in the far north of Scotland, in a county called Caithness. It is as far north as you can go on the island of Britain without a boat. Caithness is the land of my Henderson ancestors, and in particular the area around a village called Dunbeath. First […]
Your mileage, of course, may vary: This comes from PhD Comics. ..bruce w..
UPDATE (10/31/08): I’ve got a new post, citing a Rocky Mountain News article pointing out yet another problem specifically for those newly registered Colorado voters who requested a mail-in ballot. IMPORTANT CORRECTION (10/30/08): As per the comments by gailculp below, not all Colorado counties have drop-off spots for mail-in ballots. So if you are using […]
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Snow in October? I am currently in Scotland researching family history. After spending the weekend in Glasgow, it’s up to Caithness. My Henderson family is from the Dunbeath area, on the east coast of Scoland in the far north. I drove north through Inverness in a fairly potent snowstorm. Seriously, if any of you have […]
Again from the wise mind of Anna Schwartz courtesy of the Wall Street Journal: If they [“toxic” assets that nobody wants] are priced at current market levels, selling them would be a recipe for instant insolvency at many institutions. The fears that are locking up the credit markets would be realized, and a number of […]
The new Despair.com catalog arrived today, and just in time: and of course: And there’s always the do-it-yourself page (click on the image for a larger view): Should be an interesting week. ..bruce w..
Daily Financial Moment Of Clarity
From the Far Eastern Economic Review: Guangdong Province alone, the heart of China’s low-cost manufacturing base, has seen half of the shoe manufacturing industry close shop (over 2,200 factories) this year. Laid-off factory employees, along with millions of migrant construction workers likely to be left jobless as construction slows, will return to a countryside largely […]
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