[NautiNurse]

The paper that was enclosed with the ballot was very specific about not returning the pen.

An insert created after the US Postal Service screamed loudly.

[Uncle Ike]

Bump for after work....

[nina0113]

The paper that was enclosed with the ballot was very specific about not returning the pen.

An insert created after the US Postal Service screamed loudly.

It's too bad, really - I was thinking it was an elegant way of preventing voter fraud. Ballots probably aren't too hard to forge, but official government pens are a little trickier, so if they get back a ballot without a pen, it's a fake ballot. Can't read instructions? Not smart enough to vote.

[milagro]

Ever see what a lumpy object does to a letter cancelling machine? One time I was asked to run the ting for an hour or so (supervisor was desperate). The cancelling machine is a huge system of belts, metal rollers, and an electronic eye that detects where the stamp is, turns the enveople the right way so it can be cancelled, and then cancels it with very black ink.

Everything was going fine until an envelope with a tooth in it came through the metal feeders. Tooth went flying across the room and before I could shut the machine down, the envelope along about ten others behind it were instantly scrunched up into an large--and very black--mass.

Can't imagine what a pen in an envelope would do!:)