Well, Plantnerd and I finally managed to really make a difference in an election. Our city held elections for mayor and town council. The mayor position was widely contested with one candidate on the ballot and 2 write-in candidates. One of the write-in candidates is a student at our college and ran a strong campaign that included tee-shirts at graduation, yard signs throughout town and bribes of bookbags and pens to the professors (and maybe more). Who knows what sort of campaign finance laws were violated? Well, with a grand total of 20% of the registered voters voting, the student received 56 votes versus 55 votes for the other writeiin candidate and 43 votes for the person on the ballot. So with a mandate of 8% of the registered voters, we have new leadership in our town!
Sometimes it feels great to be part of democracy in action!
