The motivation for me writing this article came after listening to today’s Voice Arizona radio show. Their guest today was Roy Coulliette, candidate for Mayor Peoria Arizona. He was asked, "Wouldn’t it be nice if there were more places of entertainment for the people in Peoria so they wouldn’t have to travel to Scottsdale?"

His reply was “Yeah, I remember when there were more places you could ride a horse around town."

So this made me think, HMMM, if this is the way the elderly (those 75 years and older like Roy) are thinking in general, should their vote count as much as a person who has, lets say, their whole life ahead of them (60 more years)?

Do the elderly care about what their great great grandchildren’s world will be like? Do they not realize that most people don’t care if you can still ride a horse around? But they do care about recycling.

My Theory of Voter Relativity (If you are easily offended, STOP here)

IF YOU ARE... YOUR VOTE COUNTS AS...
People 75 years or older 0.25% a whole vote
A new U.S. citizen for less than five years 0.17% a whole vote
Unable to speak English 0.005% a whole vote
A woman* 0.77% a whole vote
Black and you are still disgruntled about slavery** 0.005% a whole vote
Indian and you are still disgruntled about losing your land** 0.005% a whole vote
A devout Jewish, Muslim, Christian, or you believe magic is real, or you believe in an invisible man, or you believe in astrology - YOU CAN'T VOTE UNTIL YOU REALIZE WE ARE LIVING IN THE 21st CENTURY -
Responsible for helping elect Bush in 2004 0.20% a whole vote


* You know why.
** Because the rest of us had nothing to do with that.

I know that doesn't leave too many of us with a whole vote, but that's just the way it is.