i’m sorry, but that’s the funniest thing i read all week.

The procedures for registering to vote are more concerned with making you prove that you live where you say you do (and are thus eligible to vote in that particular precinct) than in making you prove your citizenship. In signing the registration card (and in signing the roster when you get your ballot), you are required to swear that you are eligible to vote, i.e. that you are a citizen of the U.S., over the age of 18, haven’t had your rights removed, etc. You are not currently required to provide any document that proves you are a citizen. In fact, if you need to register at the polling place on election day, a passport alone, although it proves you are a citizen, is not adequate. You also need something that proves you live where you say you do, such as a current state ID/DL, or a recent utility bill.

I really don’t think there are an appreciable number of people who are not citizens that are trying to vote. I just don’t believe it, and as far as I know, no one has ever presented any evidence that this is happening.

Secondly you should phone in the Homeland Security department, as their hordes of Florida contractors cannot seem to help themselves in bringing in thousands of pounds of cocaine to the same good ol boy-controlled parts of the U.S. as the 1980s. (the MN office is in downtown St. Paul and they do not let you come in to say hello without an appointment, so no, you can’t demand their shady contracts).

I mean, if you’re worried about a couple fronts in Uptown, consider then the institutions which profit decade-in, decade-out, with nary a ripple. Where else does all that money go, outer space?

Seriously if someone tapes the Mpls 311 operator getting the tip about the Fed, that would be a pretty cool audio. Eh???

I also believe that I may have, on a separate occasion, said “we need to __cross the 3rd Avenue bridge to get to campus__ because the 35W bridge collapsed”

Have you no respect for authority, sir?