# Weirdest ballot issue. Anybody? Anybody else? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 1, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-ballot-issue-anybody-anybody-else/559119 "2010-11-01T20:54:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-ballot-issue-anybody-anybody-else/559119/21 "2010-11-02T15:21:25Z")
In NC, we voted on whether or not there should be a Constitutional amendment disallowing felons from running for sheriff. It’s in response to our last election, when we had six felons make a run for the office, most notably [this guy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Hege). Yikes! ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-ballot-issue-anybody-anybody-else/559119/22 "2010-11-02T15:32:50Z")
Damn totalitarian socialists just have to take over something else. When will these idiots learn that ET affairs are simply better left to the free market. The entrepreneurial spirit is what made alien greeting the powerhouse of innovation it is today, mind-ray blocking technology, extra-grainy photography tecchnique etc… But Now the government jackbboots are going to stick their bureaucratic nose in and screw everything up. The are going to enact so many regulations and stifle the little guy out of work, You mark my words, within 2 years there will be no extra-terrestrials bothering to visit us at all, and the opportunity for years of research on what anal-probing feels like will be lost forever. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-ballot-issue-anybody-anybody-else/559119/23 "2010-11-02T20:34:59Z")
> [@](#): > > The best we have in Arkansas is hunting being added as an enshrined right in the state constitution. We had that here in Montana a few years back. Absurd though it is, it passed by an overwhelming majority. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-ballot-issue-anybody-anybody-else/559119/24 "2010-11-02T20:39:47Z")
> [@Eutychus](#): > > It’s the “Plantations” part that has everyone riled up here. > > For some reason they think it makes people believe we’re part of the deep south. Well, yeah - _South_ New England. Can’t fool us! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-ballot-issue-anybody-anybody-else/559119/25 "2010-11-02T20:41:28Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > Damn totalitarian socialists just have to take over something else. When will these idiots learn that ET affairs are simply better left to the free market. The entrepreneurial spirit is what made alien greeting the powerhouse of innovation it is today, mind-ray blocking technology, extra-grainy photography tecchnique etc.. But Now the government jackbboots are going to stick their bureaucratic nose in and screw everything up. The are going to enact so many regulations and stifle the little guy out of work, You mark my words, within 2 years there will be no extra-terrestrials bothering to visit us at all, and the opportunity for years of research on what anal-probing feels like will be lost forever. The tin-foil hat industry is fighting this initiative with every mind-control ray they can gather. It’s hypocritical to be sure, but sometimes desperate times call for desperate measures. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-ballot-issue-anybody-anybody-else/559119/26 "2010-11-02T21:52:29Z")
The grays can be reasoned with, but the lizard people won’t recognize the committee. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-ballot-issue-anybody-anybody-else/559119/27 "2010-11-02T22:01:37Z")
Not to mention the friggin’ Daleks. It’s hard to chair the Exo-Housing subcommittee with them screaming “EXTERMINATE” every 15 damn seconds - trust me, I’ve been there. Makes me want to beat them to death with a toilet plunger. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-ballot-issue-anybody-anybody-else/559119/28 "2010-11-02T23:21:26Z")
A sonic toilet plunger, right? ---
**Author:** ![Reepicheep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@Reepicheep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reepicheep)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-ballot-issue-anybody-anybody-else/559119/29 "2010-11-02T23:21:30Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > Can the Commitee be named after Kirk? The _ **James T. Kirk Committee on Extraterrestrial Affairs** _ would be fantastic. I would donate money to make that happen. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-ballot-issue-anybody-anybody-else/559119/30 "2010-11-02T23:25:36Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > > [@BigT](#): > > > > The best we have in Arkansas is hunting being added as an enshrined right in the state constitution. > > Hey! Have they been talking to Tennessee? Right-to-hunt is on the ballot today in four states: Arizona, Arkansas, South Carolina, Tennessee. Similar amendments in previous years have been approved and added to the state constitutions of ten other states: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-ballot-issue-anybody-anybody-else/559119/31 "2010-11-03T00:05:53Z")
Yeah, I think there’s a constantly updated list of “ballot issues to get GOP voters off their asses & to the polls.” Otherwise they would turn up their noses at bothering to vote for another Washington Republican muckymuck & Democrats would win seats. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-ballot-issue-anybody-anybody-else/559119/32 "2010-11-03T01:52:06Z")
What a relief. Women in Oklahoma can rest easy secure in the knowledge that if their husbands beat them, “Mohammed made me do it” won’t be considered as a valid defense. “She had it comin’” good as always. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-ballot-issue-anybody-anybody-else/559119/33 "2010-11-03T01:54:36Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > Can the Commitee be named after Kirk? The _ **James T. Kirk Committee on Extraterrestrial Affairs** _ would be fantastic. I don’t live in Denver itself, so I couldn’t vote on that proposition, but if it passes? I will campaign to make this so. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-ballot-issue-anybody-anybody-else/559119/34 "2010-11-03T02:38:22Z")
How about some goofy candidate names? Here in Richmond, we had the opportunity to vote for Courtland “Corky” Booze for city council. He’s signs up all over the place, lines of them along some of the roads around here. Which leads to some interesting juxtapositions: Booze Booze Booze Booze Booze Don’t drink and drive! ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-ballot-issue-anybody-anybody-else/559119/35 "2010-11-03T08:17:09Z")
Well, it looks like the voters of Denver shall not adopt said ordinance creating an ET commission. I’m speechless. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-ballot-issue-anybody-anybody-else/559119/36 "2010-11-03T12:09:27Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > A sonic toilet plunger, right? Naw, I’d just beat them with [one of their own](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_POzvfvPsFIQ/S-7lB4-MgSI/AAAAAAAAASo/83m9bnX2Kpk/s1600/NewDalek1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://mentosplusdietcokequalsboom.blogspot.com/2010_05_01_archive.html&usg=__HxsdZZhNiq6bPStC0jvdxMMyLBQ=&h=450&w=400&sz=49&hl=en&start=19&sig2=Ur4oiwlzHUVJbVXHlqUdxA&zoom=1&tbnid=93Z12rEmqWub4M:&tbnh=131&tbnw=118&ei=ylDRTMD8LoKrngejy42sDA&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddalek%2Btoilet%2Bplunger%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox%26rlz%3D1I7DKUS_en%26biw%3D1004%26bih%3D583%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=296&oei=sFDRTJ_sGMP6lwfhuPDMDA&esq=2&page=2&ndsp=16&ved=1t:429,r:10,s:19&tx=78&ty=55) ---
**Author:** ![Drum\_God](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drum_god/32/44_2.png) [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-ballot-issue-anybody-anybody-else/559119/37 "2010-11-03T13:17:25Z")
> [@spark240](#): > > Right-to-hunt is on the ballot today in four states: Arizona, Arkansas, South Carolina, Tennessee. Similar amendments in previous years have been approved and added to the state constitutions of ten other states: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin. You mean there is a dumbass proposition out there that Texas hasn’t embraced? Does Governor Goodhair know about this? Our governor reserves the right to shoot wildlife just when he is out walking the dog. Surely he fears that his right to hunt might be abridged. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-ballot-issue-anybody-anybody-else/559119/38 "2010-11-03T13:25:59Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > The best we have in Arkansas is hunting being added as an enshrined right in the state constitution. Hunting… _aliens_? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-ballot-issue-anybody-anybody-else/559119.md?page=1)