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Thursday, July 09, 2009
It Never Lasts Long
39 comments:
- Sara said...
I'm not sure how old Elise is, but I had something similar happen when my youngest son was about 3. He found a purple ink pad and decided that he would try out his best Picasso impersonation on the walls and the brand new leather couches. Once I got over my anger, I realized that one of his designs was quite good...
- July 09, 2009 7:23 PM
- Unknown said...
Bless your heart! But, a home with no accidents is a home without soul. I'm sure you'll find a creative solution!
- July 09, 2009 7:56 PM
- i cant decide said...
Big Hugs. I've been there many times.
- July 09, 2009 7:58 PM
- Christina said...
I feel you pain.
When my daughter was 3 or 4 yo. she drew on our white bathroom cabinets with bright pink finger nail polish. UGH! - July 09, 2009 8:11 PM
- ancient one said...
I think all mothers have had this experience many times... LOL
- July 09, 2009 8:39 PM
- The Amusing Redhead said...
I am so sorry :-(
I feel your pain.
I love love the new white floors!!
Kari - July 09, 2009 8:45 PM
- Tanna Clark said...
Ah, yes blue marker on the yellow couch here. Luckily it was a cushion we could flip over.
- July 09, 2009 9:11 PM
- Nicola said...
she's a sneaky one! :)
http://whichname.blogspot.com - July 09, 2009 10:23 PM
- Unknown said...
Kids are a constant reminder of the strength of our patience and serenity....my son took a permanent black marker to the inside of my car. Found out that spraying Hair Spray and then dab it with a towel works wonder. Wish Aquanet was still around at $1 a pop :)
- July 09, 2009 10:29 PM
- Unknown said...
I'm sorry to hear it. I've never experienced a marker incident, but did have a child (much older than Elise) decide to play with neon orange silly putty before falling asleep. Next morning it was EVERYWHERE in their bedding. Inhale. Exhale. Google a solution.
Good luck getting it out or covering it up. And I love the way the bedrooms turned out. - July 09, 2009 10:47 PM
- Allison said...
Been there and am sympathetic. I have found that the best way to encourage my delicious sons to destroy something is to tidy it up. Want them to play with something they should not? Pack it away neatly! It will be out in 5 seconds. I just try to tell myself that it is a home not a museum and most things are cleanable or liveable!
- July 10, 2009 1:27 AM
- Workin' MAMA! said...
I always have to re-welcome myself to the real world when things like this happen to me girl...
(sigh) - so so sorry to hear that -
She IS an artist you know...
latrice - July 10, 2009 2:06 AM
- celina from canada said...
better or worse than peanut butter, personally i'd thing better....
my son did a mural on the white cabinets in our RENTAL and on the dog in SHARPIE, the cabinets had to be painted and the dog's hair grew out...(i was outside for a second with a tow truck driver for the car in -45 weather...he stood on a juice jug to reach the window sill where i kept them...)
they do keep us on our toes.... - July 10, 2009 7:08 AM
- Chele said...
I know how you feel!! Just know you are not alone in this struggle! LOL. Have a good day!
- July 10, 2009 8:12 AM
- Rhonda said...
at least pink matches the rest of her things :)
it could of been black. - July 10, 2009 8:17 AM
- Right Brain Thinker said...
To get marks off walls and finger prints off door jams etc. try the foaming scrubbing bubbles. The off brands do not work. I have been using this for 20 plus years. I always feel like a commercial but I promise it works. Also try it on outdoor furniture, the gunk that builds up on the floor at the base boards, kitchen goo around the stove, and it works really great on metal doors.
- July 10, 2009 8:20 AM
- Amy said...
Oh no!! I did that when I was little and decided to paint my nails in my white bed. My mother was furious!
Just after we painted our front room and got a new little faux leather ottoman for storage, Emily took a knitting needle and stabbed it in the center. Now she keeps putting stuff in the hole.
sigh! - July 10, 2009 8:54 AM
- Lori said...
Was this art work before or after the visit from the in-laws?
- July 10, 2009 9:18 AM
- Tubo Family said...
My 5 yo just did an original design, in non-washable crayon, on his bedroom wall in our RENTAL. Thought he has skipped this stage but turns out he is a late bloomer. The crayons were part of a school box he received as gift; now we are back to washable only.
- July 10, 2009 12:53 PM
- TJ said...
My children seem to be experts at these things as well. I actually have nail polish stuck to my bathroom floor and ceiling. I decided it will just have to wait for a new coat of paint to be rid of it.
Hubby and I had recently discussed being able to recarpet and paint, when we found out about the twins. Now we know that there are another 3 years of the really crazy messes. - July 10, 2009 1:26 PM
We have found that Windex works wonders on many fabrics (including cars) on many stains (ink & blackberry stain included)
- July 10, 2009 1:38 PM
We have found out that Windex takes out many stains (including blackberry and ink) out of many types of fabric (including stains on car seat cushions).
- July 10, 2009 1:39 PM
- Victoria said...
Murphy's law for you! ;)
- July 10, 2009 2:06 PM
- Lori said...
Be careful about using Windex! It may work on some fabrics, but I set down a bottle and some leaked on a brand new couch from Ethan Allen and it left a big stain that I could never get out. I had to turn the cushion over for as long as I had the sofa.
- July 10, 2009 2:17 PM
- Lisa Page Rosenberg said...
I would write more here but I am busy trying to get our three-year-old son's artwork off of the basin and lid of the toilet.
Have a great weekend! - July 10, 2009 3:22 PM
- Shannon said...
It never lasts long....AMEN!
- July 10, 2009 4:00 PM
My four year old snuck a lollipop from my purse (our bank sends them through in the drive thru, and I save them for treats) put it in his mouth, crawled up on my new lovely creamy cotton duck covered sofa that I had scrimped and saved for, and proceeded to zone out watching Charlotte's Web, and drooled purple, sticky, artificial never-to-be-removed goo all over the arm. I knew my kids were watching too much tv this summer...shame on me, on too many fronts to name!
- July 10, 2009 4:41 PM
- Monica said...
You've just described my life :)
I'm sorry it didn't last a little longer for you.... - July 12, 2009 8:56 PM
- Sandy said...
Ah, yes, I remember ...
Those are the years I really learned about patience! LOL.
She's still a little dolly in my mind ... - July 14, 2009 7:08 AM
Ugh! This seems like it happens to everything I ever change or bring into my life. I'm sitting at a new-to-me roll-top desk that I got at a garage sale. I'm just waiting for some big spill or a hunk of the wood to get chunked off, or scratched.
And it seems that I always spill tea on white blouses.
I have no words of wisdom--only words of compassion and commiseration. - July 14, 2009 12:34 PM
- rachel blazer said...
good thing it's white- bleach, while dangerously hazardous to our bodies & mysteriously bad for the environment, is VERY good for my heart when i'm sad about stains! we have much white in our home for this reason!
- July 14, 2009 4:53 PM
- Shell in your Pocket said...
No..it never does! Hang in there!
sandy toe - July 14, 2009 9:25 PM
- Laurie said...
Meredith, I LOVE all the home improvements you have been doing! Where you find the energy to do all this with three young children, I have no idea, but good for you. Your home looks warm and inviting, and the colors just bring everything together. My 3-yr-old boy has drawn on our leather furniture with a permanent marker, drawn on the tile floor with a pen, and drawn all over his bed frame and wall with chalk. I know some of those are not too bad, and the chalk wipes right off, but still, ya know? And it's not like I don't give him paper... I do! :) Thankfully, somebody invented Mr. Clean Magic Erasers! I think they were made just for moms with young children, hehe. Thanks for posting pics of your projects!
Laurie in FL - July 14, 2009 11:31 PM
- Echoes From the Hill said...
I know it is frustrating, but in the scheme of things, it just isn't important. My daughter recently lost her three year old in a tragic accident. Give that little girl an extra hug.
- July 16, 2009 10:20 AM
- Rhoda @ Southern Hospitality said...
Meredith, just read up on the post where you painted your children's rooms. I love that idea! It looks terrific, so nice & clean and bright looking. I would love to rip up our carpet and stain our concrete in the downstairs of our house. Have to talk the hubby into that one.
- July 16, 2009 1:59 PM
- Elizabeth said...
Oh, no! Bless your heart. I've been through that, but with black marker. Aargh!
God bless,
Elizabeth - July 21, 2009 2:12 PM
- Amiyrah said...
we haven't heard from you in a while. Hope everything is going OK with you and your family...
- July 21, 2009 5:57 PM
- Carrien Blue said...
My daughter attacked the walls at my MIL's house with a sharpie. She just wrote, "Art by the Girl" underneath it and left it up. I was far more upset.
I've learned to never buy any thing but washable markers. - July 21, 2009 7:05 PM
- Kathy said...
I'm sorry Meredith, but when I read this I laughed and laughed ;) My son is now 21, but I remember those "marker in the bed" days soooo well! And marker on the wall, crayon in the clothes dryer, eggs and cocoa on the carpet (I'm making brownies, mama!), paint on the puppy...
I remember being torn between wanting the shake him silly and wanting to laugh. I hope I laughed more than I scolded ;)
I am sure you took a deep breath first! - July 22, 2009 12:15 PM


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Dedicated Vessel Research Program Records
Identifier: MS-0101
Scope and Contents
The Dedicated Vessel Research Program Records, which date from 1972 to 1980, document the entire scope of the DVRP project undertaken in the late 1970s, and includes records generated by the DVRP as well as other records and publications scientists used, read, or considered over the course of the project. The tuna/porpoise problem is heavily documented. The collection consists of agreements, summaries, reports, permits, notes, plans, "green books", logs, transcripts, letters,...
1972-1980; Majority of material found in 1976-1980

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Murder in Montague Falls
by Russ Colchamiro, Sawney Hatton, Patrick Thomas
on Tour December 1-31, 2019
Acclaimed storytellers Russ Colchamiro, Sawney Hatton, and Patrick Thomas each present an original novella brimming with enough danger, intrigue, and murder to get readers' blood pounding and hearts racing.
In Colchamiro's RED INK, a paperboy with an overactive imagination witnesses a brutal killing on his route—or has he taken his fantasy spy games a step too far?
In Hatton's THE DEVIL'S DELINQUENTS, a trio of teenage misfits in pursuit of success, power, and revenge practice amateurish occult rituals… with deadly consequences.
In Thomas's A MANY SPLENDID THING, a sultry high school teacher enrolls one of her students to get rid of her husband. But will the young man really graduate to murder?
My Review:
As is frequently the case with a collection from a variety of authors, my appreciation of the stories and the writers' styles varied. I liked the first story about an imaginative teen who saw himself as a secret agent only to get involved with one. The second story was the darkest of the three and not to my taste at all. There was much vulgar language and the aspect of the plot including satanic worship just did not appeal to me at all. The last story was pretty good as it had sort of a moral message even though the justice met out certainly had a twist to it.
am not sure who the readers would be who would enjoy these stories.
The stories were somewhat entertaining and did suggest that justice
would be evident in the end. Readers who don't like vulgar language
may have difficulty with the collection, especially the middle story.
Book Details:
Genre: Crime
Published by: Crazy 8 Press
Publication Date: October 1st 2019
Number of Pages: 250
Purchase Links: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads
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"You Kill Me" is the official soundtrack to the book MURDER IN MONTAGUE FALLS (Noir-Inspired Novellas by Russ Colchamiro, Sawney Hatton & Patrick Thomas). Russ Colchamiro (a long time friend and fellow creator) asked the band to write what would be considered a closing credit tune for the book. We were happy to do so!Read an excerpt:
An infrared scope cut through the suburban tree line.Perched on a high-angle branch in the neighbor's spruce tree, Isaac could see her through the living room window, six houses away.
The M21 semi-automatic sniper rifle with fiberglass stock and 20-round box magazine was snug against his shoulder.
One bullet. One body.
Though camouflaged within a thicket of evergreen leaves, he had a clean shot.
"Come on," he whispered, his eye against the scope. "Give me the signal."
In perfect synchronicity, Isaac's earpiece crackled. "Target confirmed. Kill shot approved."
Natalie exits her room with the ritual kit, locking the door behind her.Her father, swathed in a cornucopia-pattern quilt, sits in his wheelchair in the den, positioned near enough the window so that he can be in the daylight. Maybe he enjoys it, but one cannot tell for certain since his face registers no enjoyment, nor any other emotion.
Natalie kneels down before him, flips up the quilt, and undoes the bottom three buttons of his shirt, exposing his stomach. Between her fingertips, she wields the double-edged blade for a safety razor. She carefully nicks the skin above his father's belly button. She looks up at him, detects no reaction.
She makes intersecting six-inch-long slices into his stomach, then carves a large circle around the lines, working around the seeping blood. Upon finishing, she evaluates her work and nods.
"I'm going to bring you back, daddy," Natalie says to him, kissing his knuckles. "I promise."
Rosa went from smiling to bawling in less time than it took to blink. I pulled her in and held her against my bare chest. She pounded my ribs with her closed fists."Why won't you understand! There is no other way! If we don't kill him soon, you'll come to school one day and find that he killed me. How are you going to feel then? Especially if he figures out that you're my lover! You would follow me to the Pearly Gates."
"Rosa, this talk of killing is crazy."
She pushed herself back and slapped me hard across the face. "You think I'm crazy?"
Excerpt from Murder in Montague Falls. Copyright 2019 by Russ Colchamiro, Sawney Hatton, Patrick Thomas. Reproduced with permission from Russ Colchamiro, Sawney Hatton, Patrick Thomas. All rights reserved.
Russ Colchamiro:
RUSS COLCHAMIRO is the author of the rollicking space adventure, Crossline, the zany sci-fi backpacking series Finders Keepers, Genius de Milo, and Astropalooza, editor of the sci-fi mystery anthology, Love, Murder & Mayhem, and contributing author for his newest project, Murder in Montague Falls, a noir novella collection, all with Crazy 8 Press.
Russ has contributed to several other anthologies including Tales of the Crimson Keep, Pangaea, They Keep Killing Glenn, Altered States of the Union, Thrilling Adventure Yarns, Brave New Girls vols. 3&4, Camelot 13, TV Gods 2, and Footprints in the Stars.
He is now finalizing the first in an ongoing SFF mystery series featuring his hard-boiled private eye Angela Hardwicke and has several other SFF, crime fiction, and children's book projects in the works.
Russ lives in New Jersey with his wife, their twin ninjas, and their crazy dog, Simon.
For more on Russ's works, visit:
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Sawney Hatton:
SAWNEY HATTON is an author, editor, and screenwriter who has long loved playing in the dark. His published works include the Dark Comedy novel Dead Size, the YA Noir novella Uglyville, and the Dark Fiction short story collection Everyone Is a Moon. He also edited the Sci-Fi Horror anthology What Has Two Heads, Ten Eyes, and Terrifying Table Manners?
Other incarnations of Sawney have produced marketing videos, attended chili cook-offs, and played the banjo and sousaphone (not at the same time). As of this writing, he is still very much alive.
For more semi-unseemly insights into Sawney, visit:
sawneyhatton.com, Goodreads, Twitter, & Facebook!
Patrick Thomas:
PATRICK THOMAS is the award-winning author of the beloved Murphy's Lore series and the darkly hilarious Dear Cthulhu advice empire.
His 40+ books include Fairy with a Gun, By Darkness Cursed, Lore & Dysorder, Dead to Rites, Startenders, As the Gears Turn, Cthulhu Explains It All, and Exile and Entrance. His is the co-author of the Mystic Investigators series, The Santa Heist, and the Jack Gardner mysteries.
Patrick is the co-editor of Camelot 13 (with John French), New Blood (with Diane Raetz), and Hear Them Roar (with CJ Henderson), co-created The Wildsidhe Chronicles YA series and is the creator of the Agents of the Abyss series.
He has had more than 150 short stories published in magazines and anthologies, with his work for YA and children including the Ughabooz books, the Undead Kid Diaries, the Joy Reaper books, and the Babe B. Bear Mysteries as Patrick T. Fibbs.
Visit him online at:
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[Links to the CTNS are provided above, but this does not mean that I in any way endorse the opinions expressed at those web sites. For a detailed critique of these bogus science rationalizations, see Victor Stenger's excellent Has Science Found God?, a draft of an article for Astronomy magzaine. For a broader perspective on the science/religion questions, see these Religion and Philosophy links and these Science, Religion and Philosophy links. I also highly recommend Michael Koller's Essays on Science, Philosophy, and Religion. Also see the skeptic links on my web page.] Donald E. Simanek.
[Summary of a paper that appeared in the 23 July 1998 issue of Nature by Edward J. Larson and Larry Witham: "Leading Scientists Still Reject God." Nature, 1998; 394, 313.]
Larson and Witham present the results of a replication of 1913 and 1933 surveys by James H. Leuba. In those surveys, Leuba mailed a questionnaire to leading scientists asking about their belief in "a God in intellectual and affective communication with humankind" and in "personal immortality". Larson and Witham used the same wording [as in the Leuba studies], and sent their questionnaire to 517 members of the [U.S.] National Academy of Sciences from the biological and physical sciences (the latter including mathematicians, physicists and astronomers). The return rate was slightly over 50%.
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BELIEF IN PERSONAL GOD 1914 1933 1998 Personal belief 27.7 15 7.0 Personal disbelief 52.7 68 72.2 Doubt or agnosticism 20.9 17 20.8 BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY 1914 1933 1998 Personal belief 35.2 18 7.9 Personal disbelief 25.4 53 76.7 Doubt or agnosticism 43.7 29 23.3Note: The 1998 immortality figures add up to more than 100%. The misprint is in the original. The 76.7% is likely too high.
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Disbelief in God and immortality among NAS biological scientists was 65.2% and 69.0%, respectively, and among NAS physical scientists it was 79.0% and 76.3%. Most of the rest were agnostics on both issues, with few believers. We found the highest percentage of belief among NAS mathematicians (14.3% in God, 15.0% in immortality). Biological scientists had the lowest rate of belief (5.5% in God, 7.1% in immortality), with physicists and astronomers slightly higher (7.5% in God, 7.5% in immortality).Larson and Witham close their report with the following remarks:
As we compiled our findings, the NAS issued a booklet encouraging the teaching of evolution in public schools.... The booklet assures readers, 'Whether God exists or not is a question about which science is neutral'. NAS president Bruce Alberts said: 'There are many very outstanding members of this academy who are very religious people, people who believe in evolution, many of them biologists.' Our survey suggests otherwise."There is a review of earlier studies of the religiosity of scientists at pp 180ff of:
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi and Michael Argyle. The Psychology of Religious Behaviour, Belief and Experience. London & New York: Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 0-415-12330-5 (hbk) or 0-415-12331-3 (pbk).On the subject of eminent scientists, they mention unpublished data collected by one of the co-authors: "Beit-Hallahmi (1988) found that among Nobel Prize laureates in the sciences, as well as those in literature, there was a remarkable degree of irreligiosity, as compared to the populations they came from." The reference is to: Beit-Hallahmi, B. (1988). The religiosity and religious affiliation of Nobel prize winners. Unpublished data.


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'Gangster Squad' -- featuring an all-star cast including Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Sean Penn and Josh Brolin -- hits theaters next week, and we're excited to see one of the most anticipated movies of the new year on the big screen. While Warner Bros. released a number of trailers, posters, images and behind-the-scenes footage to get us all pumped, it's now time to bring on the clips -- six clips in fact!
This film has been long in the making. Originally scheduled for an October 2012 release, 'Gangster Squad' was soon bumped from its spot in favor of Ben Affleck's 'Argo.' Then after the tragic events of 'The Dark Knight Rises' theater shooting, Warner Bros. decided on reshooting certain scenes, thereby giving it a January release. Fortunately, the waiting is coming to an end in a few days time, made evident by the six brand-new clips released by Warner Bros. (via The Playlist).
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Reports that the government and the Jerusalem municipality were planning to pick up the tab for eight years of water bills unpaid by the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City were premature, said a member of the City Council.
Jewish Home (Bayit Yehudi) representative David Hadari, who is a member of the Council as well as a Deputy Mayor in the city, said that the Council's finance committee had rejected the deal that would have written off NIS 9 million ($2.3 million) in debt for the Church, on condition that the various factions that claim to control the foundation that runs the Church worked out their grievances when it came to paying the water bill starting in 2013.
A deal was signed between the city and the Church several weeks ago, after intense negotiations between the the municipality, the Gihon Jerusalem water company and the three Catholic bodies that claim to control the Church. The negotiations began after the company threatened to cut off the Church's water supply because it was in such arrears. Under the arrangement, the three bodies that share control of the site - Greek Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic, and Roman Catholic Franciscan Order Churches – will begin paying the Church's bill for part of 2012, and begin paying on time in 2013.
The Church and the water company further discussed the possibility of setting up a fund that would pay for water for poor families belonging to the Church, with contributions from both sides.
A spokesperson for the finance committee dismissed the idea of a bailout for the Church just because it is considered a holy place by Catholics. The spokesperson said that all other important institutions in the city – including the Kotel, Yad Vashem, and Knesset – all paid their bills on time, and with no special arrangements. It would thus be unfair, the spokesperson said, to give preference to the Church, and the city was prepared to deal with international fallout from the case, if such should develop.
Gihon did not indicate when, or if, it would stop supplying water to the Church.


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93 S.Ct. 1245
36 L.Ed.2d 1
Pedro J. ROSARIO et al., Petitioners,
Nelson ROCKEFELLER, Governor of the State of New York, et al.
No. 71—1371.
Argued Dec. 13, 1972.
Decided March 21, 1973.
Rehearing Denied Apr. 23, 1973.
See 411 U.S. 959, 93 S.Ct. 1920.
Petitioners challenge the constitutionality of New York Election Law § 186, which requires a voter to enroll in the party of his choice at least 30 days before the general election in order to vote in the next party primary. Though eligible to enroll before the previous general election, petitioners failed to do so and were therefore ineligible to vote in the 1972 primary. The Court of Appeals, reversing the District Court, upheld the New York scheme, which it found to be a permissible deterrent against the practice of primary election 'raiding' by opposing party members. Held: New York's delayed-enrollment scheme did not violate petitioners' constitutional rights. Pp. 756—762.
(a) Section 186 did not absolutely prohibit petitioners from voting in the 1972 primary, but merely imposed a time deadline on their enrollment, which they chose to disregard. Pp. 756—758.
(b) The statute does not deprive voters of their right under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to associate with the party of their choice or subsequently to change to another party, provided that the statutory time limit for doing so is observed. Pp. 758 759.
(c) The cutoff date for enrollment, which occurs about eight months before a presidential, and 11 months before a nonpresidential, primary, is not arbitrary when viewed in light of the legitimate state purpose of avoiding disruptive party raiding. Pp. 760—761.
458 F.2d 649, affirmed.
Burt Neuborne, New York City, for petitioners; Melvin L. Wulf, New York City, and Seymour Friedman, Brooklyn, on the brief.
A. Seth Greenwald, Asst. Atty. Gen. of New York, for respondents Rockefeller and others; Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Asst. Atty. Gen., and Irving Galt, Asst. Atty. Gen., on the brief.
Joseph Jaspan, Mineola, filed a brief for respondents Meisser and others.
David N. Dinkins, pro se, filed a brief for respondents Dinkins and others.
Mr. Justice STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court.
For more than 60 years, New York has had a closed system of primary elections, whereby only enrolled members of a political party may vote in that party's primary.1 Under the State's Election Law, McKinney's Consol.Laws, c. 17, a registered voter enrolls as a party member by depositing an enrollment blank in a locked enrollment box. The last day for enrollment is 30 days before the general election each year. Section 186 of the Election Law provides that the enrollment boxes shall not be opened until the Tuesday following the general election, and party affiliations are then entered on the State's official registration books. The voter is then duly enrolled as a member of his party and may vote in a subsequent primary election.2
The effect of § 186 is to require a voter to enroll in the party of his choice at least 30 days before the general election in November in order to vote in the next subsequent party primary. If a voter fails to meet this deadline, he cannot participate in a party primary until after the following general election. Section 187 provides an exemption from this waiting period for certain classes of voters, including persons who have attained voting age after the last general election, persons too ill to enroll during the previous enrollment period, and persons who moved from one place to another within a single county. Under § 187, these classes of voters may be specially enrolled as members of a party even after the general election has taken place.3
The petitioners are New York residents who became eligible to vote when they came of age in 1971. Although they could have registered and enrolled in a political party before the cutoff date in 1971—October 2—they failed to do so.4 Instead, they waited until early December 1971 to register and to deposit their enrollment blanks. At that time, they could not be specially and immediately enrolled in a party under § 187, since they had attained the voting age before, rather than after, the 1971 general election. Hence, pursuant to § 186, their party enrollment could not become effective until after the November 1972 general election. Because of New York's enrollment scheme, then, the petitioners were not eligible to vote in the presidential primary election held in June 1972.
The petitioners filed these complaints for declaratory relief, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that § 186 unconstitutionally deprived them of their right to vote in the June primary and abridged their freedom to associate with the political party of their choice. The District Court, in an unreported opinion, granted them the declaratory relief sought. The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed, holding § 186 constitutional. 458 F.2d 649. We granted certiorari, but denied the petitioners' motion for summary reversal, expedited consideration, and a stay. 406 U.S. 957, 92 S.Ct. 2062, 32 L.Ed.2d 343 (1972).5
The petitioners argue that, through § 186, New York disenfranchised them by refusing to permit them to vote in the June 1972 primary election on the ground that they had not enrolled in a political party at least 30 days prior to the preceding general election. More specifically, they contend that § 186 has operated to preclude newly registered voters, such as themselves, from participating in the primary election of the party of their choice. According to the petitioners, New York has no 'compelling state interest' in its delayed-enrollment scheme so as to justify such disenfranchisement, and hence the scheme must fall. In support of this argument, the petitioners rely on several cases in which this Court has struck down, as violative of the Equal Protection Clause, state statutes that disenfranchised certain groups of people. Carrington v. Rash, 380 U.S. 89, 85 S.Ct. 775, 13 L.Ed.2d 675 (1965); Kramer v. Union Free School District No. 15, 395 U.S. 621, 89 S.Ct. 1886, 23 L.Ed.2d 583 (1969); Cipriano v. City of Houma, 395 U.S. 701, 89 S.Ct. 1897, 23 L.Ed.2d 647 (1969); Evans v. Cornman, 398 U.S. 419, 90 S.Ct. 1752, 26 L.Ed.2d 370 (1970); City of Phoenix v. Kolodziejski, 399 U.S. 204, 90 S.Ct. 1990, 26 L.Ed.2d 523 (1970); Dunn v. Blumstein, 405 U.S. 330, 92 S.Ct. 995, 31 L.Ed.2d 274 (1972).
We cannot accept the petitioners' contention. None of the cases on which they rely is apposite to the situation here. In each of those cases, the State totally denied the electoral franchise to a particular class of residents, and there was no way in which the members of that class could have made themselves eligible to vote. In Carrington, for instance, the Texas Constitution disabled all servicemen from voting in Texas, no matter how long they had lived there. In Kramer, residents who were not property owners or parents were completely precluded from voting in school board elections. In Cipriano and Kolodziejski, the States prohibited non-property owners from ever voting in bond elections. In Evans, Maryland refused to permit residents at the National Institutes of Health, located within its borders, ever to vote in state elections. And in Dunn, Tennessee totally disenfranchised newly arrived residents, i.e., those who had been residents of the State less than a year or residents of the county less than three months before the election.
Section 186 of New York's Election Law, however, is quite different. It did not absolutely disenfranchise the class to which the petitioners belong—newly registered voters who were eligible to enroll in a party before the previous general election. Rather, the statute merely imposed a time deadline on their enrollment, which they had to meet in order to participate in the next primary. Since the petitioners attained voting age before the October 2, 1971, deadline, they clearly could have registered and enrolled in the party of their choice before that date and been eligible to vote in the June 1972 primary.6 Indeed, if the petitioners had not been able to enroll by the October 2, 1971, deadline because they did not attain the requisite age until after the 1971 general election, they would have been eligible for special enrollment under § 187. The petitioners do not say why they did not enroll prior to the cutoff date; however, it is clear that they could have done so, but chose not to. Hence, if their plight can be characterized as disenfranchisement at all, it was not caused by § 186, but by their own failure to take timely steps to effect their enrollment.7
For the same reason, we reject the petitioners' argument that § 186 violated their First and Fourteenth Amendment right of free association with the political party of their choice. Since they could have enrolled in a party in time to participate in the June 1972 primary, § 186 did not constitute a ban on their freedom of association, but merely a time limitation on when they had to act in order to participate in their chosen party's next primary.8
Indeed, under the New York law, a person may, if he wishes, vote in a different party primary each year. All he need do is to enroll in a new political party between the prior primary and the October cutoff date. For example, one June he could be a registered Republican and vote in the Republican primary. Before enrollment closed the following October, he could enroll in the Democratic Party. Since that enrollment would be effective after the November general election and before the following February 1, he could then vote in the next Democratic primary. Before the following October, he could register to vote as a Liberal, and so on. Thus, New York's scheme does not 'lock' a voter into an unwanted pre-existing party affiliation from one primary to the next.9
The only remaining question, then, is whether the time limitation imposed by § 186 is so severe as itself to constitute an unconstitutionally onerous burden on the petitioners' exercise of the franchise or on their freedom of political association. As the dissent acknowledges, the State is certainly justified in imposing some reasonable cutoff point for registration or party enrollment, which citizens must meet in order to participate in the next election. Post, at 765. Hence, our inquiry must be whether the particular deadline before us here is so justified.
The cutoff date for enrollment prescribed by § 186 occurs approximately eight months prior to a presidential primary (held in June) and 11 months prior to a nonpresidential primary (held in September). The petitioners argue that this period is unreasonably long, and that it therefore unduly burdens the exercise of their constitutional rights. According to the petitioners, § 186 requires party enrollment before prospective voters have knowledge of the candidates or issues to be involved in the next primary elections. The requirement is especially onerous, the petitioners say, as applied to new voters, who have never before registered to vote or enrolled in a political party.
It is true that the period between the enrollment deadline and the next primary election is lengthy. But that period is not an arbitrary time limit unconnected to any important state goal. The purpose of New York's delayed-enrollment scheme, we are told, is to inhibit party 'raiding,' whereby voters in sympathy with one party designate themselves as voters of another party so as to influence or determine the results of the other party's primary. This purpose is accomplished, the Court of Appeals found, not only by requiring party enrollment several months in advance of the primary, on the theory that 'longrange planning in politics is quite difficult,' 458 F.2d, at 653, but also by requiring enrollment prior to a general election. The reason for the latter requirement was well stated by the court below:
'(T)he notion of raiding, its potential disruptive impact, and its advantages to one side are not likely to be as apparent to the majority of enrolled voters nor to receive as close attention from the professional politician just prior to a November general election when concerns are elsewhere as would be true during the 'primary season,' which, for the country as a whole, runs from early February until the end of June. Few persons have the effrontery or the foresight to enroll as say, 'Republicans' so that they can vote in a primary some seven months hence, when they full well intend to vote 'Democratic' in only a few weeks. And, it would be the rare politician who could successfully urge his constituents to vote for him or his party in the upcoming general election, while at the same time urging a cross-over enrollment for the purpose of upsetting the opposite party's primary. Yet the operation of section 186 requires such deliberate inconsistencies if large-scale raiding were to be effective in New York. Because of the statute, it is all but impossible for any group to engage in raiding.' Ibid.
It is clear that preservation of the integrity of the electoral process is a legitimate and valid state goal. Cf. Dunn v. Blumstein, supra, 405 U.S. at 345, 92 S.Ct. at 1004; Bullock v. Carter, 405 U.S. 134, 145, 92 S.Ct. 849, 857, 31 L.Ed.2d 92 (1972). In the service of that goal, New York has adopted its delayed-enrollment scheme; and an integral part of that scheme is that, in order to participate in a primary election, a person must enroll before the preceding general election. As the Court of Appeals stated: 'Allowing enrollment any time after the general election would not have the same deterrent effect on raiding for it would not put the voter in the unseemly position of asking to be enrolled in one party while at the same time intending to vote immediately for another.' 458 F.2d, at 653. For this reason, New York's scheme requires an insulating general election between enrollment and the next party primary. The resulting time limitation for enrollment is thus tied to a particularized legitimate purpose, and is in no sense invidious or arbitrary. Cf. Lippitt v. Cipollone, 404 U.S. 1032, 92 S.Ct. 729, 30 L.Ed.2d 725 (1972).10
New York did not prohibit the petitioners from voting in the 1972 primary election or from associating with the political party of their choice. It merely imposed a legitimate time limitation on their enrollment, which they chose to disregard.
Accordingly, the judgment below is affirmed.
Mr. Justice POWELL, with whom Mr. Justice DOUGLAS, Mr. Justice BRENNAN, and Mr. Justice MARSHALL join, dissenting.
* It is important at the outset to place New York's cutoff date for party enrollment in perspective. It prevents prospective voters from registering for a party primary some eight months before a presidential primary and 11 months before a nonpresidential one.1 The Court recognizes, as it must, that the period between the enrollment and the primary election is a 'lengthy' one.2 Indeed, no other State has imposed upon voters previously unaffiliated with any party restrictions which even approach in severity those of New York.3 And New York concedes that only one other State—Kentucky—has imposed as stringent a primary registration deadline on persons with prior party affiliations.4 Confronted with such a facially burdensome requirement, I find the Court's opinion unconvincing.
The right of all persons to vote, once the State has decided to make it available to some, becomes a basic one under the Constitution. Dunn v. Blumstein, 405 U.S. 330, 92 S.Ct. 995, 31 L.Ed.2d 274 (1972); Kramer v. Union Free School District, 395 U.S. 621, 89 S.Ct. 1886, 23 L.Ed.2d 583 (1969); Carrington v. Rash, 380 U.S. 89, 85 S.Ct. 775, 13 L.Ed.2d 675 (1965). Self-expression through the public ballot equally with one's peers is the essence of a democratic society. Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533, 84 S.Ct. 1362, 12 L.Ed.2d 506 (1964). A citizen without a vote is to a large extent one without a voice in decisions which may profoundly affect him and his family. Whatever his disagreement may be with the judgments of public officials, the citizen should never be given just cause to think that he was denied an equal right to elect them.
Yet the Court today upholds a statute which imposes substantial and unnecessary restrictions on this right, as well as on the closely related right to associate with the party of one's choice. See Williams v. Rhodes, 393 U.S. 23, 89 S.Ct. 5, 21 L.Ed.2d 24 (1968); NAACP v. Alabama, 357 U.S. 449, 78 S.Ct. 1163, 2 L.Ed.2d 1488 (1958); United States v. Robel, 389 U.S. 258, 88 S.Ct. 419, 19 L.Ed.2d 508 (1967). The Court justifies this holding by placing the responsibility upon petitioners for their failure to enroll, as required by New York law, eight months prior to the presidential primary. We are told that petitioners 'clearly could have registered and enrolled in the party of their choice' before the cutoff date and been eligible to vote in the primary, but for undertermined reasons 'chose not to,' and that their disfranchisement resulted from 'their own failure to take timely steps to effect their enrollment.'5
If the cutoff date were a less severe one, I could agree. Certainly, the State is justified in imposing a reasonable registration cutoff prior to any primary or general election, beyond which a citizen's failure to register may be presumed a negligent or wilful act forfeiting his right to vote in a particular election. But it is difficult to perceive any persuasive basis for a registration or party enrollment deadline eight to 11 months prior to election. Failure to comply with such an extreme deadline can hardly be used to justify denial of a fundamental constitutional right. Numerous prior decisions impose on us the obligation to protect the continuing availability of the franchise for all citizens, not to sanction its prolonged deferment or deprivation. Ex parte Siebold, 100 U.S. 371, 25 L.Ed. 717 (1880); Nixon v. Herndon, 273 U.S. 536, 47 S.Ct. 446, 71 L.Ed. 759 (1927); Lane v. Wilson, 307 U.S. 268, 59 S.Ct. 872, 83 L.Ed. 1281 (1939); Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186 (1962); Gray v. Sanders, 372 U.S. 368, 83 S.Ct. 801, 9 L.Ed.2d 821 (1963); Wesberry v. Sanders, 376 U.S. 1, 84 S.Ct. 526, 11 L.Ed.2d 481 (1964); Reynolds v. Sims, supra; Carrington v. Rash, supra; Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections, 383 U.S. 663, 86 S.Ct. 1079, 16 L.Ed.2d 169 (1966); Kramer v. Union Free School District, supra; Cipriano v. City of Houma, 395 U.S. 701, 89 S.Ct. 1897, 23 L.Ed.2d 647 (1969); Evans v. Cornman, 398 U.S. 419, 90 S.Ct. 1752, 26 L.Ed.2d 370 (1970); City of Phoenix v. Kolodziejski, 399 U.S. 204, 90 S.Ct. 1990, 26 L.Ed.2d 523 (1970); Bullock v. Carter, 405 U.S. 134, 92 S.Ct. 849, 31 L.Ed.2d 92 (1972); Dunn v. Blumstein, supra.
The majority excuses the challenged statute because it does not 'absolutely' disenfranchise petitioners or impose any absolute ban on their freedom of association.6 The State likewise contends this is 'not a disenfranchising statute.'7 The Court apparently views this statute as a mere 'time deadline' on petitioners' enrollment that disadvantages no identifiable class and that postpones through the next primary rather than denies altogether petitioners' voting and associational rights.8 I cannot agree. Deferment of a right, especially one as sensitive and essential as the exercise of the first duty of citizenship, can be tantamount to its denial. And any statute which imposes for eight or 11 months an absolute freeze on party enrollment and the consequent right to vote totally disfranchises a class of persons who, for quite legitimate reasons, decide to register closer than eight months to the primary date and those who, for equally legitimate reasons, wish to choose or alter party affiliation. Our decisions, moreover, have never required a permanent ban on the exercise of voting and associational rights before a constitutional breach is incurred. Rather, they have uniformly recognized that any serious burden or infringement on such 'constitutionally protected activity' is sufficient to establish a constitutional violation, Dunn v. Blumstein, supra, 405 U.S. at 343, 92 S.Ct. at 1003; NAACP v. Button, 371 U.S. 415, 438, 83 S.Ct. 328, 340, 9 L.Ed.2d 405 (1963); Reynolds v. Sims, supra, 377 U.S. at 561—562, 84 S.Ct. at 1381—1382.
The majority does not identify the standard of scrutiny it applies to the New York statute. We are told only that the cutoff date is 'not an arbitrary time limit unconnected to any important state goal';9 that it is 'tied to a particularized legitimate purpose, and is in no sense invidious or arbitrary.'10 The Court does not explain why this formulation was chosen, what precedents support it, or how and in what contexts it is to be applied. Such nebulous promulgations are bound to leave the lower courts and state legislatures in doubt and confusion as to how we will approach future significant burdens on the right to vote and to associate freely with the party of one's choice.
The Court's formulation, though the terminology is somewhat stronger, resembles the traditional equal protection 'rational basis' test. One may agree that the challenged cutoff date is rationally related to the legitimate interest of New York in preventing party 'raiding.' But this Court's prior decisions simply do not permit such an approach. Rather, they recognize that:
'(T)he right of suffrage is a fundamental matter in a free and democratic society. Especially since the right to exercise the franchise in a free and unimpaired manner is preservative of other basic civil and political rights, any alleged infringement of the right of citizens to vote must be carefully and meticulously scrutinized.' Reynolds v. Sims, supra, 377 U.S. at 561—562, 84 S.Ct., at 1381.
See also Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U.S. 356, 6 S.Ct. 1064, 30 L.Ed. 220 (1886).
Voting in a party primary is as protected against state encroachment as voting in a general election. Bullock v. Carter, supra; Terry v. Adams, 345 U.S. 461, 73 S.Ct. 809, 97 L.Ed. 1152 (1953); United States v. Classic, 313 U.S. 299, 61 S.Ct. 1031, 85 L.Ed. 1368 (1941). And the Court has said quite explicitly that 'if a challenged statute grants the right to vote to some citizens and denies the franchise to others, 'the Court must determine whether the exclusions are necessary to promote a compelling state interest." Dunn v. Blumstein, supra, 405 U.S., at 337, 92 S.Ct., at 1000, quoting Kramer v. Union Free School District, supra, 395 U.S., at 627, 89 S.Ct., at 1889 (emphasis added in Dunn). See also Cipriano v. City of Houma, supra, 395 U.S., at 704, 89 S.Ct., at 1899; City of Phoenix v. Kolodziejski, supra, 399 U.S., at 205, 209, 90 S.Ct., at 1992, 1994. Likewise, the Court has asserted that 'the right of individuals to associate for the advancement of political beliefs' is 'among our most precious freedoms,' Williams v. Rhodes, 393 U.S., at 30, 89 S.Ct., at 10, and must be carefully protected from state encroachment. NAACP v. Alabama, supra; Bates v. Little Rock, 361 U.S. 516, 80 S.Ct. 412, 4 L.Ed.2d 480 (1960); Gibson v. Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, 372 U.S. 539, 83 S.Ct. 889, 9 L.Ed.2d 929 (1963).
The inquiry thus becomes whether the instant statute, burdening as it does fundamental constitutional rights, can withstand the strict judicial scrutiny called for by our prior cases. The asserted state interest in this case is the prevention of party 'raiding,' which consists of the movement or 'crossover' by members of one party into another's primary to 'defeat a candidate who is adverse to the interests they care to advance.'11 The typical example is a member of one party deliberately entering another's primary to help nominate a weaker candidate, so that his own party's nominee might win more easily in the general election. A State does have an interest in preventing such behavior, lest 'the efficacy of the party system in the democratic process—its usefulness in providing a unity of divergent factions in an alliance for power—would be seriously impaired,' Rosario v. Rockefeller, 458 F.2d 649, 652 (CA2). The court below held flatly that the state interest in deterring 'raiding' was a 'compelling' one. Ibid.
The matter, however, is not so easily resolved. The importance or significance of any such interest cannot be determined in a vacuum but, rather, in the context of the means advanced by the State to protect it and the constitutionally sensitive activity it operates to impede. The state interest here is hardly substantial enough to sustain the presumption, upon which the statute appears to be based, that most persons who change or declare party affiliation nearer than eight to 11 months to a party primary do so with intent to raid that primary. Any such presumption assumes a willingness to manipulate the system which is not likely to be widespread.
Political parties in this country traditionally have been characterized by a fluidity and overlap of philosophy and membership. And citizens generally declare or alter party affiliation for reasons quite unconnected with any premeditated intention to disrupt or frustrate the plans of a party with which they are not in sympathy. Citizens customarily choose a party and vote in its primary simply because it presents candidates and issues more responsive to their immediate concerns and aspirations. Such candidates or issues often are not apparent eight to 11 months before a primary. That a citizen should be absolutely precluded so far in advance from voting in a party primary in response to a sympathetic candidate, a new or meaningful issue, or changing party philosophies in his State, runs contrary to the fundamental rights of personal choice and expression which voting in this country was designed to serve.
Whatever state interest exists for preventing cross-overs from one party to another is appreciably lessened where, as in the case of petitioners, there has been no previous affiliation with any political party. The danger of voters in sympathy with one party 'raiding' another party is insubstantial where the voter has made no prior party commitment at all. Certainly, the danger falls short of the overriding state interest needed to justify denying petitioners, so far in advance, the right to declare an initial party affiliation and vote in the party primary of their choice.
In Dunn, supra, 405 U.S., at 343, 92 S.Ct., at 1003, the Court emphasized that the State, in pursuing its legitimate interest,
'cannot choose means which unnecessarily burden or restrict constitutionally protected activity. Statutes affecting constitutional rights must be drawn with 'precision,' NAACP v. Button, 371 U.S. 415, 438, 83 S.Ct. 328, 340, 9 L.Ed.2d 405 (1963); United States v. Robel, 389 U.S. 258, 265, 88 S.Ct. 419, 424, 19 L.Ed.2d 508 (1967), and must be 'tailored' to serve their legitimate objectives. Shapiro v. Thompson, supra, 394 U.S., at 631, 89 S.Ct. at 1329. And if there are other, reasonable ways to achieve those goals with a lesser burden on constitutionally protected activity, a State may not choose the way of greater interference. If it acts at all, it must choose 'less drastic means.' Shelton v. Tucker, 364 U.S. 479, 488, 81 S.Ct. 247, 252, 5 L.Ed.2d 231 (1960).'
The Court indicates that placing the enrollment deadline before the preceding general election serves well the state interest in discouraging party 'raiding'12 This fails to address the critical question of whether that interest may be protected adequately by less severe measures. A foreshortening of the challenged period in this case would not leave the party structure of New York helpless and vulnerable to 'raiding' activities. Other States, with varied and complex party systems, have maintained them successfully without the advanced enrollment deadline imposed by New York.
Partisan political activities do not constantly engage the attention of large numbers of Americans, especially as party labels and loyalties tend to be less persuasive than issues and the qualities of individual candidates. The crossover in registration from one party to another is most often impelled by motives is most often impelled by motives quite unrelated to a desire to raid or distort a party's primary. To the extent that deliberate raiding occurs, it is usually the result of organized effort which depends for its success upon some relatively immediate concern or interest of the voters. This type of effort is more likely to occur as a primary date draws near. If New York were to adopt a more reasonable enrollment deadline, say 30 to 60 days, the period most vulnerable to raiding activity would be protected. More importantly, a less drastic enrollment deadline than the eight or 11 months now imposed by New York would make the franchise and opportunities for legitimate party participation available to those who constitutionally have the right to exercise them.13
See N.Y. Election Law § 131. The State's first comprehensive primary law was enacted in 1911.
Section 186 provides, in pertinent part:
'All enrollment blanks contained in the enrollment box shall remain in such box, and the box shall not be opened nor shall any of the blanks be removed therefrom until the Tuesday following the day of general election in that year. Such box shall then be opened by the board of elections and the blanks contained therein shall be removed therefrom by the board, and the names of the party designated by each voter under such declaration, provided such party continues to be a party, as defined in this law shall be entered by the board, opposite the name of such voter in the appropriate column of the two copies of the register containing enrollment numbers for the election district in which such voter resides. . . . Such enrollment shall be complete before the succeeding first day of February in each year.' This section finds its roots in the 1911 law. Laws 1911, c. 891, § 19.
Section 187 provides, in pertinent part:
'Application for special enrollment, transfer or correction of enrollment. 1. At any time after January first and before the thirtieth day preceding the next fall primary, except during the thirty days preceding a spring primary, and except on the day of a primary, a voter may enroll with a party, transfer his enrollment after moving within a county, and under certain circumstances, correct his enrollment, as hereinafter in this section provided.
'2. A voter may enroll with a party if he did not enroll on the day of the annual enrollment (a) because he become of age after the preceding general election, or (b) because he was naturalized subsequent to ninety days prior to the preceding general election, or (c) because he did not have the necessary residential qualifications as provided by section one hundred fifty, to enable him to enroll in the preceding year, or (d) because of being or having been at all the previous times for enrollment a member of the armed forces of the United States as defined in section three hundred three, or (e) because of being the spouse, child or parent of such member of the armed forces and being absent from his or her county of residence at all previous times for enrollment by reason of accompanying or being with such member of the armed forces, or (f) because he was an inmate or patient of a veterans' bureau hospital located outside the state of New York at all previous times for enrollment, or the spouse, parent or child of such inmate or patient accompanying or being with such inmate or patient at such times, or (g) because he was incapacitated by illness during the previous enrollment period thereby preventing him from enrolling.'
The petitioners themselves admit this failure. The present consolidated case originated in two complaints, one by the petitioner Rosario and other named plaintiffs, on behalf of a class, and one by the petitioner Eisner. Paragraph 6 of Rosario's complaint stated that '(e)ach of these plaintiffs could have registered and enrolled on or before October 2nd, 1971, the last date of registration for the November 1971 elections. They each did not do so.' Similarly, Eisner's complaint stated, in paragraph 5: 'Plaintiff, Eisner, first became eligible to vote on December 30, 1970, upon the attainment of his twenty-first birthday.' Whether the petitioners failed to enroll before the deadline because of inadvertence, because of lack of interest in the essentially local 1971 general election, or for other reasons is not clear, since none of them advances any explanation for this failure to enroll.
Although the June primary election has been completed and the petitioners will be eligible to vote in the next scheduled New York primary, this case is not moot, since the question the petitioners raise is "capable of repetition, yet evading review." Dunn v. Blumstein, 405 U.S. 330, 333 n. 2, 92 S.Ct. 995, 998, 31 L.Ed.2d 274 (1972); Moore v. Ogilvie, 394 U.S. 814, 816, 89 S.Ct. 1493, 1494, 23 L.Ed.2d 1 (1969); Southern Pacific Terminal Co. v. ICC, 219 U.S. 498, 515, 31 S.Ct. 279, 283, 55 L.Ed. 310 (1911).
Not only would the petitioners have been eligible for the 1972 primary, but, since they were eligible in 1971 for special enrollment under § 187, they could have, if they had timely registered and enrolled, participated in the September 14, 1971, primary.
The District Court held that the petitioners' failure to enroll before the cutoff date was not truly voluntary, because it was not done with sufficient awareness of the relevant circumstances and likely consequences. But this argument could well be made any time a State imposes a time limitation or cutoff point for registration or enrollment. The petitioners do not claim that they were unaware of New York's deadline for enrollment.
The dissent states that '(t)he Court apparently views this statute as a mere 'time deadline' on petitioners' enrollment . . . that postpones through the next primary rather than denies altogether petitioners' voting and associational rights.' Post, at 766. And it argues that our decisions 'have never required a permanent ban on the exercise of voting and associational rights before a constitutional breach is incurred.' Post, at 766—767. But the dissent mischaracterizes our view of § 186. We do not uphold the statute on the ground that it is merely a prohibition on voting in one particular primary, rather than a permanent ban on voting. That is neither our point nor the effect of the law. The point is that the statute did not prohibit the petitioners from voting in any election, including the 1972 primary, had they chosen to meet the deadline established by the law.
The petitioners also argue that § 186 establishes a durational residence requirement unconstitutional under Dunn v. Blumstein, 405 U.S. 330, 92 S.Ct. 995, 31 L.Ed.2d 274 (1972), and violates the right to travel under Shapiro v. Thompson, 394 U.S. 618, 89 S.Ct. 1322, 22 L.Ed.2d 600 (1969). Since the exemption in § 187 applies only to persons whose new residence is within the same county as their old residence, persons who arrive in New York State or move from one county to another after the cutoff date, and deposit their enrollment blank at that time, are barred by the delayed-enrollment scheme from voting in the next primary election. According to the petitioners, this constitutes an unconstitutional durational residence requirement and is violative of the 1970 amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 84 Stat. 316, 42 U.S.C. § 1973aa—1.
The petitioners, however, lack standing to raise these contentions. They make no claim that they are recently arrived residents of the State or that they have moved from one county to another nor even that they have changed their residence at all within the period relevant here. The petitioners cannot represent a class to which they do not belong.
The petitioners contend that New York already has less drastic means to prevent raiding—means that would accomplish the State's goal yet would permit the registrant who inadvertently failed to enroll in time to vote in the primary. Specifically, the petitioners point to § 332 of the State's Election Law, which provides that the party enrollment of any voter may be challenged by any party member and, upon the determination by the chairman of the party's county committee that the voter is not in sympathy with the principles of the party, may be canceled by a justice of the State Supreme Court after a hearing. That section, however, is clearly too cumbersome to have any real deterrent effect on raiding in a primary. Every challenge to a would-be raider requires a full administrative and judicial inquiry; proof that the challenge voter is not in sympathy with the party's principles demands inquiry into the voter's mind; and even if the challenge is successful, it strikes from the enrollment books only one name at a time. In the face of large-scale raiding, § 332 alone would be virtually ineffectual. We agree with the Court of Appeals that '(i)n requiring that the state use to a proper end the means designed to impinge minimally upon fundamental rights, the Constitution does not require that the state choose ineffectual means.' 458 F.2d, at 654.
October 2, 1971, was the last day on which petitioners' enrollment could have been effective. June 20, 1972, was the date of New York's presidential primary. Thus, the deadline was actually some eight and one-half months before the primary. In nonpresidential years, the cutoff runs from early October until the following September.
Ante, at 760.
The State does not dispute this point. See Tr. of Oral Arg. 34.
Massachusetts, Illinois, New Jersey, Texas, and Ohio permit previously unaffiliated voters to declare their initial party affiliation immediately prior to voting in the primary of their choice. See Mass.Gen.Laws Ann., c. 53, §§ 37, 38 (Supp.1973); Ill.Rev.Stat. c. 46, §§ 5—30, 7—43, 7—45 (1971); N.J.Stat.Ann. § 19:23—45 (1964); Tex.Election Code, Art. 13.01a (Supp.1972—1973), V.A.T.S.; Ohio Rev.Code Ann. § 3513.19 (1960).
California and Pennsylvania permit previously unaffiliated voters to declare an initial party preference up to the close of registration immediately preceding the primary. Calif.Elections Code §§ 22, 203, 311—312 (1961) (registration closes in California 53 days before a primary); Pa.Stat.Ann., Tit. 25, §§ 623—17, 951 16 (1963 and Supp.1972—1973) (registration closes in Pennsylvania 50 days before a primary).
Michigan permits any registered voter to participate in the primary of his choice. Mich.Comp.Laws §§ 168.570, 168.575 to 168.576, Mich.Stat.Ann. §§ 6.1570, 6.1575—6.1576 (1972). See Brief for Petitioners 32—33.
Tr. of Oral Arg. 34.
Ante, at 757, 758. See also ante, at 1252 where the Court refers to § 186 as merely imposing 'a legitimate time limitation on their (petitioners') enrollment, which they chose to disregard.'
See ante, at 757:
'Section 186 of New York's Election Law, however, is quite different. It did not absolutely disenfranchise the class to which the petitioners belong—newly registered voters who were eligible to enroll in a party before the previous general election. Rather, the statute merely imposed a time deadline on their enrollment, which they had to meet in order to participate in the next primary.'
Similarly at 758:
'For the same reason, we reject the petitioners' argument that § 186 violated their First and Fourteenth Amendment right of free association with the political party of their choice. Since they could have enrolled in a party
in time to participate in the June 1972 primary, § 186 did not constitute a ban on their freedom of association, but merely a time limitation on when they had to act in order to participate in their chosen party's next primary.'
And at 762:
'New York did not prohibit the petitioners from voting in the 1972 primary election or from associating with the political party of their choice. It merely imposed a legitimate time limitation on their enrollment, which they chose to disregard.'
In all these instances, the majority seeks to distinguish a 'time limitation' from an absolute disenfranchisement of petitioners or an absolute ban on their associational rights.
Tr. of Oral Arg. 35.
Ante, at 757 and n. 6, supra.
Ante, at 760.
Ante, at 762.
Tr. of Oral Arg. 29.
Ante, at 761.
Petitioners also suggest other 'less drastic' means of protecting the State's interest: greater reliance on the summary disenrollment procedures of § 332 of the State's election law and loyalty oaths, restrictive party affiliation rules optional for those parties who wish them, limitation of the statute's operation to persons with pre-existing party affiliations, and criminal sanctions for fraudulent participation in the electoral process. Tr. of Oral Arg. 13—21. I make no judgment either on the efficacy of these alternatives in protecting the State's interest or on their potential infringement of constitutionally protected rights. Their presence, however, points to the range and variety of other experimental techniques available for New York to consider.


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President Barack Obama has called for peace and calm in Ferguson, Missouri, the St. Louis suburb where an unarmed black teenager was fatally shot over the weekend by a white police officer. Obama has been involved in other high-profile cases with racial overtones: the shooting death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watchman and the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates.
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I have made a guide for the parts needed to improve the solar-powered pistol that is handed out to many of the new arrivals on this planet.
The Solar-Powered Pistol QL: 1 Patch: 14.6
QL1 http://aomainframe.info/showitem.asp?AOID=121567
1. -Solar-Powered Pistol- In case you've destroyed your 'newbie pistol',
By attaching an 'Auto Targeting Computer -IIR 4 -Ultra-'
To a 'Basic Calculator'.
The result is called a 'Solar-Powered Weapon Supervisor'.
Combine the 'Solar-Powered Weapon Supervisor'
With a 'Jandawit Cleanup Cluster'.
The result, the 'Solar-Powered Weapon Device'
Combine the 'Solar-Powered Weapon Device'
With an 'Irreparable River MV'
To get the 'Solar-Powered Pistol'.
NOTE: Only the 'irreparable' River MV will be possible to use with this device. More 'alert' pistols will simply reject it.
2. -Solar-Powered Tinker Pistol- QL1-39
QL1 http://aomainframe.info/showitem.asp?AOID=164489
QL39 http://aomainframe.info/showitem.asp?AOID=164490
Modify a 'Jensen Personal Ore Extractor'
With a 'Screwdriver'
The result is a 'Modified Jensen Ore Extractor'.
Find a 'Robotic Self-Preservation System'. I found plenty of them on a scrap heap in Newland.
Combine the 'Robotic Self-Preservation System'
With the 'Modified Jensen Ore Extractor'
To get a 'Unstable Preservation System'.
Combine the 'Unstable Preservation System'
With a 'Notum Chip' or a 'Notum Fragment'
To get a 'Stable Preservation System'.
Finally, attach your 'Stable Preservation System'
To the 'Solar-Powered Pistol'
To get the 'Solar-Powered Tinker Pistol'.
3.-Solar-Powered Mender Pistol- QL40-99
QL40 http://aomainframe.info/showitem.asp?AOID=164497
QL99 http://aomainframe.info/showitem.asp?AOID=164498
Find a 'Technoscavenger Brain' found on Robots
First you use a 'Screwdriver'
On the 'Technoscavenger Brain'
To extract the 'Technoscavenger Mechanics Library'
Combining 'Technoscavenger Mechanics Library'
With a 'Bio Analyzing Computer'
I made a 'Mechanical Analyzer'
Combining the 'Solar-Powered Pistol'
Onto the 'Mechanical Analyzer'
And you have the 'Solar-Powered Mender Pistol.
4. -Solar-Powered Mechanic Pistol- QL100-139
QL100 http://aomainframe.info/showitem.asp?AOID=164500
QL139 http://aomainframe.info/showitem.asp?AOID=164501
First I got my 'Electrical Engineering Tutoring Device'
Hacked with a 'Hacker Tool'
To give me access to the 'Hacked Electrical Engineering Tutoring Device'
Find a 'Disposal Unit Electrical Toolset'. (This toolset I bought from a neutral trader in Tir)
Then I attached the 'Hacked Electrical Engineering Tutoring Device'
To a 'Disposal Unit Electrical Toolset'
The result, a 'Modified Electrical Toolset'
I mounted my 'Solar-Powered Mender Pistol'
Onto'Modified Electrical Toolset'
And got the 'Solar-Powered Mechanic Pistol'.
5. -Solar-Powered Machinist Pistol- QL140-179
QL140 http://aomainframe.info/showitem.asp?AOID=164510
QL179 http://aomainframe.info/showitem.asp?AOID=164511
A 'Field Quantum Physics All-Purpose Tool'
Hacked with a 'Hacker Tool'
To create a 'Hacked Field Quantum Physics Tool'
Modified this 'Hacked Field Quantum Physics Tool'
With an operational 'Field Quantum Physics All-Purpose Tool'
to create an 'Unstable Space reduction Chamber'
Find a 'Notum Threaded Zodiacal Blanket' in one of the Artery forests.
Combining the 'Unstable Space Reduction Chamber'
with the 'Notum Threaded Zodiacal Blanket'
I created the 'Notum Threaded Backpack'
Lastly I combined the 'Notum Threaded Backpack'
with my 'Solar-Powered Mechanic Pistol'
to end up with the 'Solar-Powered Machinist Pistol'.
6.-Solar-Powered Engineer Pistol-QL180-199
QL180 http://aomainframe.info/showitem.asp?AOID=164512
QL199 http://aomainframe.info/showitem.asp?AOID=164513
Find a thing called a 'Experimental Nanobot Classifying Computer' body of a deceased Slayerdroid.
Find a thing called a 'Mist Filled Jar' while doing a mission for some unspecified employer.
Combine the 'Mist Filled Jar'
With the 'Experimental Nanobot Classifying Computer'
I managed to turn it into an 'Energized Nanobot Transmitter'
Combine the 'Solar-Powered Machinist Pistol'
With the 'Energized Nanobot Transmitter'
And get the 'Solar-Powered Engineer Pistol'.
7. -Solar-Powered Master Engineer Pistol QL200
QL200 http://aomainframe.info/showitem.asp?AOID=164515
Use the 'Nano Programming Interface'
to re-program the 'Nano Formula Recompiler'
You get a 'Re-configured Nano Formula Recompiler'.
Use a 'Lock Pick'
on a normal type of 'NCU Memory'
You get a 'Disconnected NCU Memory'
Connect the 'Re-Configured Nano Formula Recompiler'
with the 'Disconnected NCU Memory'
and get an 'Accelerated NCU Memory
Find a 'Crystalized Medusa Queen Hippocampus'. This is a singular part of the medusa brain that seems to work in symbiosis with nanobots.
Merge the 'Accelerated NCU Memory'
with the 'Crystalized Medusa Queen Hippocampus'
to create the 'Symbiotic NCU'
Finally attach your 'Solar-Powered Engineer Pistol'
to the 'Symbiotic NCU'
and get your 'Solar-Powered Master Engineer Pistol'.
If anyone can help by telling me any ql requirements of the parts I would be gratefull.
Also the location and details of what drops the following parts needed for the follow guns:
Solar-Powered Tinker Pistol- QL1-39
Find a No Drop 'Robotic Self-Preservation System' available in QL1-200 patch 14.6 http://aomainframe.info/showitem.asp?AOID=164528
I found on a scrap heap in Newland. Found only on certain Android type robots, this prototype self-preservation system depends heavily on nanobots to function.
Solar-Powered Mender Pistol- QL40-99
Find a 'Technoscavenger Brain' available in QL1-200 patch 14.6 http://aomainframe.info/showitem.asp?AOID=164537
found on Robots
Solar-Powered Mechanic Pistol- QL100-139
Find a 'Disposal Unit Electrical Toolset'.QL100 patch 14.6 http://aomainframe.info/showitem.asp?AOID=164552
This nano-toolset is used by the vermin disposal robot to disassemble electrical components on items the robot is supposed to eliminate.
(This toolset I may be bought from a neutral trader in Tir)
Solar-Powered Machinist Pistol- QL140-179
Find a 'Notum Threaded Zodiacal Blanket' QL140 Patch 14.6 http://aomainframe.info/showitem.asp?AOID=164563
May be found in one of the Artery forests.
This heavy blanket is woven with threaded notum and trimmed with pea-sized notum chips. In moonlight you can see the whole zodiac depicted on its surface, but in daylight the blanket is nothing but grey.
Solar-Powered Engineer Pistol-QL180-199
Find a thing called a 'Experimental Nanobot Classifying Computer' QL180 patch14.6 http://aomainframe.info/showitem.asp?AOID=164568
Can be found on body of a deceased Slayerdroid.
Used only on Marauder Class Slayerdroids, this computer is used for classifying stray nanobots collected by by the slayerdroid's nano accumulators. The intended purpose for it was to sort and re-program nanobots with weak willpower - so that they could be utilized by the droid. As it is, slayerdroids does not have much use for nanobots other than for regeneration. The technology has proven not to be cost efficient.
Find a thing called a 'Mist Filled Jar' QL1-200 patch 14.6 http://aomainframe.info/showitem.asp?AOID=164565
while doing a mission for some unspecified employer.
Solar-Powered Master Engineer Pistol QL200
Find a 'Crystalized Medusa Queen Hippocampus'.QL200 patch 14.6 http://aomainframe.info/showitem.asp?AOID=164598
This is a singular part of the medusa brain that seems to work in symbiosis with nanobots.
The hippocampus is a part of the brain that controls certain things that has to do with emotions and rememberance of space. For some reason it is partially crystalized on medusas, and most so on medusa queens.


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September is a crazy busy month for this lady. September means a busy work schedule, a busy school schedule for the kids and this year, it also means a crazy busy holiday schedule in our house. The Jewish holidays sprung early this year. On one day, it meant searching high and low for the last protractor on this side of New Jersey, while also looking in the depths of every market for a new fruit I haven't yet eaten. On other days, it anchors me to my kitchen, dividing my time between my laptop and my stove. I do love this season of Jewish holidays though. As the cool air creeps in, there is this beautiful air of celebration and anticipation of the fall holiday season. Or maybe that's just the pumpkin spice lattes I'm smelling. Whatever it is, the mood changes. Life is busy, but in a good way.
I recently celebrated the holiday of Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) as well as the holiday of Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). Both of these holidays provide me with ample time for reflection and appreciation of the past year as well as the year to come. After the crazy roller-coaster I was on this winter, I am so appreciative and thankful for my good health and for all of the support I had from my friends and family. They've been there for me, and I love them for it.
This month's Kosher Connection link-up is all about Spreading the Joy during this holiday season.
I want to share my challah with you.
Ever since I was a kid, I have looked forward to Shabbat with my family. Friday night dinner with the family is sacrosanct. You don't mess with that tradition. It's not about level of Jewish observance. You just find a way to be at the shabbat table with family and friends, celebrating the end of the week together. Shabbat has been the constant in my life. Through my own various cycles and changes in my own Jewish observance, Shabbat has always meant "home" at the end of a long week.
We come together on Friday evening and light candles, and then sit down together for a warm meal – over good food, good wine, and good company. This includes challah. Our special holiday and shabbat bread.
I may not be a baker, but I love making challah. I love the process of working with the dough and getting it just right. I also love some of the spiritual rituals that come with making challah. In Jewish communities around the world, people come together while making challah and use that time to pray for health and wellbeing for loved ones. While preparing the dough, it us customary to keep in mind the names of loved ones who may be unwell or possibly need a job. We say a blessing while keeping the names of these people on our minds.
This past month, I've had the opportunity to make challah a few times. Each time, I've made challah with a friend who had never made challah before. Somehow, when you make challah around others, it makes this ritual all the more special.
My favorite challah recipe is adapted from a recipe that I found on a bag of flour. Over the past several years, I have tried numerous challah recipes. I've had several failures and several successes, but this recipe that I am sharing with you, is a recipe that always results in good challah. You can dress it up with whatever topping you'd like. or you may like to fill it with apples or chocolate chips, like I did for our Rosh Hashanah challahs. On some cool fall days, I have also been known to add some roasted garlic to the mix. Just play with it, and enjoy!
- 3.5 tbsp. Active Dry Yeast
- 5 cups warm water
- ½ cup sugar
- 3 tbsp. honey
- 5 lbs of High Gluten Bread Flour plus extra flour for kneading and shaping (1-2 cups)
- 3 eggs, beaten
- ½ cup, plus 2 tbsp. oil
- 2 tsp. vanilla
- 2 tbsp. salt
- Place yeast, sugar, honey and warm water in to a large mixing bowl or in the bowl of your mixer. I used a Bosch for this recipe. Allow the yeast to sit a few minutes until it bubbles.
- Add about 6 cups of the flour and mix in to a paste.
- Add eggs, ½ cup of oil, vanilla and the salt. Stir together.
- Add the rest of the bag of flour and knead for several minutes. The dough may be a little sticky.
- Add the 2tbsp, of oil and knead a few more minutes.
- If you are using a machine, turn the dough on to a floured counter and knead a few more minutes. You may need to add an additional half a cup of flour. The dough should be smooth and easy to work with.
- Oil large bowl and brush oil on the top of the dough and place in the bowl. Cover the dough with a clean kitchen towel or with plastic wrap and allow the dough to rise in a warm place for around 45 minutes. You will need to punch the dough down halfway through. The dough should double in size.
- At this point, you can take challah.
- Now is the time to shape your challah. I love the various braiding tutorials on the Challah Blog.
- Once you've shaped your challah, cover your challahs with plastic wrap or with towels, and place in a warm spot. Allow the challah to rise for another 40 minutes.
- Preheat your own to 350.
- Brush your challah with an egg wash. Now is the chance to add any toppings like sesame seeds, poppy seeds and other goodies.
- Bake your challah at 350 for about 40 minutes.
- When you tap on yoiur challah, it should sound hollow. That's a sign of doneness.
- Enjoy!


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Afghan President Hamid Karzai issued a decree in 2009 banning violence against women. But the parliament, which is currently on its winter recess, has been unable to pass it and give it permanence as a law.
There's major disagreement on key provisions where Islamic and secular law come into conflict. And activists say the gains made in women's rights since the fall of the Taliban in 2001 are slipping away.
Masooda Karokhi, a female member of parliament, has been pushing to get the proposal through the male-dominated legislature.
Karokhi says it's been a long and difficult battle, and one that Afghanistan's women can't afford to lose. That's why she and some of her colleagues continue to negotiate with religiously conservative members of parliament who oppose the law.
"We have made some changes in the proposed law," she says. "We have increased some punishments, decreased others and made some concessions."
The Afghan Constitution says that all laws must be in compliance with Islamic law, or Sharia. At issue are a range of provisions, such as whether a woman can pursue an education or even leave the house without her husband's permission, and also punishments for men who commit violence against women.
Hossein Balkhi is a member of parliament who says the law is necessary. But, he says, most of the proposed provisions violate Islam and need to be changed. He says Sharia is stricter in many of its punishments than the proposed law.
"In this law, it proposes that if a man commits a sexual assault, he will be sentenced to 16 years jail, while in Islam, that man should be executed," Balkhi says.
However, enforcement of existing laws is inconsistent at best, and very often women who are the victims of sexual assault end up jailed for adultery.
Different Interpretations
One of the more contentious issues is the age of marriage. Balkhi says that the international community is trying to push Western values on marriage. But under Islam, he says, a father decides when his daughter is ready to wed.
That notion doesn't sit well with Shukria Barakzai, the legislator who wrote the constitutional article on women's rights.
Marriage before the age of 16, she says, is a "crime."
Barakzai says the Afghan Supreme Court has ruled that 16 is the minimum age for marriage, and that it shouldn't be a subject of debate.
There are many views about what Islam says about women and their rights, says Enayatullah Balegh, an adviser to the president and a member of Afghanistan's Council of Religious Scholars.
"The interpretation and definition of violence against women is very different from here and the West," he says. He goes on to say that he considers a woman dancing or singing on TV to be "one of the most violent acts against a woman."
Balegh says Sharia already provides clear rules and punishments regarding violence against women, so the proposed law is unnecessary.
"This is a democratic thing being imposed on us," he says.
What makes matters more complicated is that Afghanistan has no clear procedure to evaluate whether proposed laws conform to Sharia.
Balkhi, the legislator, says parliament needs to form a committee of religious scholars to evaluate the provisions of the law and issue a majority decision. Barakzai, who is also a member of parliament, agrees in principle, but worries there are few legitimate Sharia scholars in the legislature.
"If we have religious scholars in the parliament who are interpreting all these religious issues for the benefit of [Afghans], that's different," she says. "Right now, we don't have it."
And that means it's doubtful the legislation will come to a vote anytime soon.
NPR's Aimal Yaqubi contributed to this report.
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