It's a nice catch...

In Michigan, if you have registered by mail, you cannot vote via absentee ballot until you have cast at least one vote in-person at your polling place of record (and no, Michigan does not have early voting). People who are over 60, handicapped, in the military, or residing overseas, are exempt.

It's an odd sort of provision... so who would it affect? Primarily one group, big time:

College students. College students who live either in other states or in other parts of the state and are registering at their address of record, their parents' home. They would be registering by mail, and they would be naturally unable to go to the polls.

Not nice.

The vote can be cast in any election, so special elections, school boards elections and summer primaries would work, but since a lot of organizing and political work goes on centered around general elections in the fall, when students are back in school, this would hit a lot of folks, I imagine.

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I went to the doctor this morning. cyan_blue drove me because I was still feeling groggy. The doctor determined that it was still the drug overdose in my system, and not a head injury, which is good. She also discovered that my last DTaP shot was in April 1997, which meant I needed another one.

I am now running a slight fever and feel like hell. Brian is supposed to be home in less than three hours. I was going to clean the house yesterday and today, but have been too freaking drugged to move out of my chair.

Meh.

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I am trying to figure out why in the world my syndication feed just reposted the last dozen posts I made. I have no clue. Until I can figure it out, I'm turning syndication off.

If you have the feed, I'm sorry for spamming you. I really did not mean to.