[geeks] One of the things I love about America

[Eric Dittman]

> > > Across the pond, it isn't legal to sell liquor on voting day.  So, I bet 
> > > people here would be pissed if voting day was on a Friday or Saturday.
> > 
> > Where?
> 
> In the US?
> 
> Maybe it isn't a nationwide thing like I'd assumed.  A few years ago (like 
> '96) a local night club was busted for selling liquor on election day.  The
> owner, whose father was running for office at the time, claimed that this
> was just the actions of his fathers opponents trying to discredit him to make
> his father look bad.

I'm pretty sure it isn't nation-wide.  I know in Texas (where
permitted by the strange laws governing the sales of alcoholic
beverages), you can buy liquor on election day.  I also know
that, as of fourteen years ago, you could buy liquor in WV
on election day.
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