*giggle*

It's hard when your favorite character in a strip isn't there much. But oh well. Granted, Satan does brighten things up a bit, but this...is priceless!

( Good God, Mom! )

Bugs? We don't have no stinking bugs...

According to Republican Party state Chairman Chris Vance: "[T]he GOP had prepared its list by comparing the street addresses of voters with those of private mailbox businesses and storage complexes" but

"its database expert had not compared cities or geographic designations."

A couple examples of the problem with this thinking:

Address listed on the voter list	Address of UPS store or storage complex - not a legal address to register one's ballot
320 Cedar Street Seattle	320 Cedar Avenue Forks
2311 45th Ave. S.W Seattle, WA	2311 N. 45th St Seattle WA

Maybe instead of something like
     select voters.* from voters
     join storage on (storage.streetnum=voters.streetnum
         and storage.street=voters.street)

they could try something like
     select voters.* from voters
     join storage on (storage.streetnum=voters.streetnum
         and storage.street=voters.street
         and storage.geo=voters.geo
         and storage.city=voters.city
         and storage.zip=voters.zip)

This should have been found in a quick code review. Stupid parochial thinking ("addresses don't repeat enough to worry about"). But then, it would ALSO have helped if their list of voters' addresses was the actual registration addresses, not mailing addresses. At least that's what I assume - given that the Rs challenged "[v]oters who are registered at their home addresses, but have their ballots and other elections-office mail sent to private mailboxes."

Oh: apparently it never occurred to party leaders that storage complexes might have resident managers. Perhaps a few phone calls before placing the challenge would have helped clear that up?

Source for quotes and example addresses: local paper

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