Today Is election day in Minnesota. St Paul had a school board election, a mayoral election and a referendum on Instant Runoff Voting
(IRV). IRV lets everyone's second choice enter into the election when the race is close and no one has a majority of the votes. IRV is being used in Minneapolis this year and St Paul is thinking about following the trend. I'm not sure that I'm in favor of it, but since UH and PP seemed to think it's a good idea, and they will be doing a lot of voting in the next 50 years, I went with "Yea." Maybe we'll find out which side won sometime tonight. I walked to the Linwood precinct with PP, just in case she needed someone to verify her residence in this precinct so that she could vote here again.
This is PP entering the voting building. Somehow the photographer got caught in the frame. So be it. The voting area was not busy. No lines strung out of the room as they did last November in the presidential election, and we were able to get in and out in about ten minutes - including voting and getting our "I Voted" stickers.
I played some tennis at Fort Snelling this afternoon, just as the weather was turning wet yet again. We played a couple of sets and came out at 3:30 to a pretty good storm. One cannot count on a full day of pleasant weather, but at least the morning was sunny.
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It's an off-off year for elections. It seems nearly constant. Not much going on locally, though both Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo had some interesting races and issues. Mostly about how to raise or spend money. Good for you and PP for doing your civic duty. I hope you washed your hands when you left the polling place.
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