New York absentee ballot application requires "a material false statement".

Yesterday I went to vote but was late, partly because of confusion about the hours for early voting:

I and others, however, were given the opportunity at this late stage to vote absentee right on the spot. We were handed a New York State absentee ballot application:

Note the six conditions to which we could swear were the true reason for voting in this manner. Obviously, since we were already in the voting place, the Westchester County Board of Elections office, we were not absent, ill, attending to primary care duties, at a Vet hospital or incarcerated.

So, what the heck? How would filling out and signing that form NOT be making "a material false statement ... as if ... duly sworn"?

This in person example simply highlights and illustrates the unethical nature of probably the vast majority of such voting, at least in New York State. Maybe it could be cleared up by simply not requiring a reason to vote my mail and the New York State people responsible for such things are too dumb and/or lazy to make the change. But it undermines confidence in the manner in which we vote. No other non-trivial act is treated so indifferently. None is not computerized. None.

If we can do pretty much everything else via computer, why not voting? Is it because voting is so much more important or because voting is so unimportant?

Creation date for food in supermarkets, not just expiration date.

I recently had this experience:

Shop Rite sells 15 month old Haagen-Dazs. Saturday, May 16, 2020

... ice cream with "best by" (euphemism for expiration date) November 2019. Yes, from LAST year.

So the November 2019 ice cream was probably produced in June 2018. If it had a creation date almost two years old, would you buy it? And what kind of company would put it on its shelves?

If these dates were properly regulated, they would have such a creation date, which would be much more instructive than a meaningless "best by" date.
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Federal legislation is needed for CREATION dates on foods sold. They can also have an expiration date but that would be as superfluous as it currently is.

With a creation date we consumers can make our own decisions.

Plague: COVID-19 infection percents v. population percents.

Only eight states have infection percents higher than their population percents. New York State is way out of line from all other states and New York City skews the state.

3/26/20	Inf	Inf%	Pop	Pop%	Inf%-Pop%
Alabama	531	0.62%	4,908,621	1.48%	-0.86%
Alaska	69	0.08%	734,000	0.22%	-0.14%
Arizona	508	0.60%	7,378,494	2.23%	-1.63%
Arkansas	349	0.41%	3,039,000	0.92%	-0.51%
California	3,777	4.43%	39,737,489	12.00%	-7.57%
Colorado	1,430	1.68%	5,845,526	1.77%	-0.09%
Connecticut	1,012	1.19%	3,563,077	1.08%	0.11%
Delaware	143	0.17%	982,895	0.30%	-0.13%
Washington D.C.	267	0.31%	720,687	0.22%	0.10%
Florida	2,352	2.76%	21,992,985	6.64%	-3.88%
Georgia	1,714	2.01%	10,736,059	3.24%	-1.23%
Hawaii	86	0.10%	1,412,687	0.43%	-0.33%
Idaho	189	0.22%	1,826,156	0.55%	-0.33%
Illinois	2,538	2.98%	12,659,682	3.82%	-0.85%
Indiana	645	0.76%	6,745,354	2.04%	-1.28%
Iowa	179	0.21%	3,179,849	0.96%	-0.75%
Kansas	168	0.20%	2,910,357	0.88%	-0.68%
Kentucky	248	0.29%	4,499,692	1.36%	-1.07%
Louisiana	2,305	2.70%	4,645,184	1.40%	1.30%
Maine	155	0.18%	1,345,790	0.41%	-0.22%
Maryland	774	0.91%	6,083,116	1.84%	-0.93%
Massachusetts	2,417	2.84%	6,976,597	2.11%	0.73%
Michigan	2,856	3.35%	10,045,029	3.03%	0.32%
Minnesota	399	0.47%	5,700,671	1.72%	-1.25%
Mississippi	579	0.68%	2,989,260	0.90%	-0.22%
Missouri	502	0.59%	6,169,270	1.86%	-1.27%
Montana	90	0.11%	1,086,759	0.33%	-0.22%
Nebraska	73	0.09%	1,952,570	0.59%	-0.50%
Nevada	535	0.63%	3,139,658	0.95%	-0.32%
New Hampshire	158	0.19%	1,371,246	0.41%	-0.23%
New Jersey	6,876	8.07%	8,936,574	2.70%	5.37%
New Mexico	136	0.16%	2,096,640	0.63%	-0.47%
New York	38,977	45.73%	19,440,469	5.87%	39.86%
North Carolina	764	0.90%	10,611,862	3.20%	-2.31%
North Dakota	58	0.07%	761,723	0.23%	-0.16%
Ohio	867	1.02%	11,747,694	3.55%	-2.53%
Oklahoma	248	0.29%	3,954,821	1.19%	-0.90%
Oregon	316	0.37%	4,301,089	1.30%	-0.93%
Pennsylvania	1,688	1.98%	12,820,878	3.87%	-1.89%
Rhode Island	188	0.22%	1,056,161	0.32%	-0.10%
South Carolina	456	0.54%	5,210,095	1.57%	-1.04%
South Dakota	46	0.05%	903,027	0.27%	-0.22%
Tennessee	957	1.12%	6,897,576	2.08%	-0.96%
Texas	1,396	1.64%	29,472,295	8.90%	-7.26%
Utah	402	0.47%	3,282,115	0.99%	-0.52%
Vermont	156	0.18%	628,061	0.19%	-0.01%
Virginia	604	0.71%	8,626,207	2.61%	-1.90%
Washington	3,207	3.76%	7,797,095	2.35%	1.41%
West Virginia	76	0.09%	1,778,070	0.54%	-0.45%
Wisconsin	707	0.83%	5,851,754	1.77%	-0.94%
Wyoming	55	0.06%	567,025	0.17%	-0.11%
	85,228		331,118,991

	Place	Inf	Pop	Inf/Pop		Pop/Inf
3/27/20	NYS	45,934	19,440,469	0.002362803078	0.24%	423
3/27/20	NYC	26,600	8,623,000	0.003084773281	0.31%	324
3/27/20	not NYC	19,334	10,917,000	0.001770999359	0.18%	565