Mexican Government grants dead voting rights

President Vicente Fox Quesada of Mexico has bowed to egalitarian pressure groups by issuing an edit emancipating the dead. Dubbed the Corpse Act the legislation allows anyone who died aged 18 or over the right to cast their vote in a local, regional or general elections.

The new law has been criticised by the Governor of Texas, which has pointed out that several thousand now eligible cadavers are buried in US state penitentiary cemeteries. Governor Rick Perry told reporters: ‘ A hell of a lot of dead spicks are buried in our graveyards and the Mexican authorities expects us to dig ‘em up on the off chance that they might take a fancy to voting. Well, they can try and make us, all it’ll git ‘em is more dead Mexicans.’

Responding on behalf of President Quesada, a Mexican Government official stated: ‘Mexico is alive to these concerns and concedes that very few, less than two per cent, of departed citizens are likely to tae advantage of the new law. However, it is important that this last barrier to adult voting is broken.’.