New Law Allows Drunks to Vote

[j.m@talk]

OSLO (Reuters) - It will be two pints of lager and a ballot, please, in Norway this year after a change in the law allowing voters to get drunk and then go out to vote.
"The election board can no longer refuse anyone to vote because they are intoxicated," an adviser at the Local Government Ministry said Thursday.

Until now, Norway's election law has denied entry to polling stations anyone with "seriously impaired judgment" or "reduced consciousness" from booze, but that law has been scrapped, adviser Steinar Dalbakk told the Bladet Tromsoe newspaper.

But Norwegians will have to sober up again for the 2005 general elections. Politicians -- possibly fearing the effects of a political hangover -- have re-enacted the law banning drunken voting.

The new law will however not take effect until after September's local government polls.
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[mireland]

so what happens when Bozo the Clown gets voted in by the drunkards..http://www.fancysplace.com/smileys/insane.gif

[Bigjakkstaffa]

...well they voted a monkey in as mayor of my town (no kidding..well okay..it was a man who went aorund in a monkey suit for a living but still) and he's still here, so i would imagine not a lot

--Jakk:t

[j.m@talk]

Originally posted by Bigjakkstaffa
...well they voted a monkey in as mayor of my town (no kidding..well okay..it was a man who went aorund in a monkey suit for a living but still) and he's still here, so i would imagine not a lot

--Jakk:t

http://www.hartlepool.gov.uk/main/Mayor.htm

Bannana munching website :p

[Baby Arm]

Maybe if we they served liquor at voting stations there would be better voter turnout for the elections.