[EM] The Voting Cat

[Bart Ingles]

There have been a few pets registered to vote in the U.S.

Jimmy Carter used to tell a story about how the state of Georgia decided
to tighten up voting requirements by making it illegal for anyone to
vote who had been dead for more than two years.





LAYTON Craig wrote:
> 
> Those of you who have been closely following the Australian electoral fiasco
> might find this entertaining.  I should warn that it is not from the most
> respected publication in the land and some of the details may be exaggerated
> (David, you'll be happy to know that for once it isn't the Queensland Labor
> Party);
> 
> SYDNEY: A pet cat was once registered to vote in an election, Australian
> electoral officials have discovered.  The case of voting fraud was uncovered
> when a Liberal MP's letter to welcome Curacao Catt to his electorate was
> returned to sender.  The Australian Electoral Commission's Paul Dacey said
> he did not know how long the cat had been registered, or whether it had ever
> voted.  An AEC spokesman said he did not know of any cases where pets were
> eligible to vote in elections.