voting results

[calimac]

Voted on Tuesday. I live right on the city limits, and for the first time actually crossed the line into the neighboring city to vote at my local polling place. This was odd because my city council was on the ballot. It was also odd because the voting was in an Odd Fellows Hall. (By the way, the "Odd" in "Odd Fellows" means "miscellaneous, as in 'odds and ends'" - it started out as a guild for trades that didn't have guilds - rather than "strange or peculiar." I mention that because of one reader with a humorectomy who will firmly claim that I didn't know that when I was only making a pun.)

The "in" party won all three of those city council seats, on about 55% of the vote. The one "out" candidate I voted for got about 1% more of the vote than the one for the second seat, which suggests that about 120 people looked over the issue and decided the same way I did. Unless it was random or for other reasons. That's not much more than the net 100 people who gave up on voting before they got to the third seat.

Lastly, for your post-election delectation, I offer this:

Comments

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

Here is Seattle, every thing I voted in (candidate, referendum, initiative, charter amendment, and levy) is breaking the way I voted, which is a big relief. Also, likely because I follow the Stranger voting guide.

The race for Mayor was close on election night, and got closer the last couple days. It's in the realm of mandated machine recount, which basically puts it in the realm of statistical fluctuation.

Last but not least, I don't see that poster as a "fail" but as a joke. Still, it's pretty funny.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

The absence of instruction as to what you're supposed to vote on leads me to suspect the same. But yes, funny.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that about the IOOF, so thanks for the explanation.