Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Election Day in the Saintly City
The first Tuesday after the first Monday this November is local election day. The ballot was sparse this week, just city council and school board seats were up for grabs. This is the first St Paul election which uses the new ranked voting system to determine the winner. I guess that means that one can vote for more than one candidate, but only in a ranked manner, wherein your second (and third) choice only gets counted when there is no candidate with a majority of the first choice votes. There is a better explanation of the process here. There was no way I'd pass up an opportunity to participate in this new and novel voting system. Unky Herb and I went to the polls at Linwood at about ten this morning and found it very sparsely populated and then almost exclusively by election judges. There was one other voter in the room. We voted and Herb expressed his "joie de vivre" for the camera on the way out.
The walk to the polls was also entertaining. Big man or mini bench?
No tennis today, nor deer hunting. And no snowstorm quite yet, as the weather creatures called off the snow for overnight. Sorry, Chicago.
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LOL. A new category perhaps? Funny benches.
The maps I've seen have a section of Wisconsin with as much as 6 inches of snow. If that line shifts much, one of us will get an early snowfall. The possibility of lake effect snow is in the forecast for Thursday, but not any accumulation. At least, that's what they say so far.
Hi - I see you are a keen bench man. There are some beautiful photos here - love the blog. I write about benches and have a recent post about big and small. I needed a man-on-a-small-bench type of photo and hope you don't mind that I have used this one, credited to you and your blog of course. If you want to have a look it's at http://benchsite.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/big-and-small-and-tiny-and-cute.html.
Do let me know if you're not happy and I will take it down. Best wishes, Miggy
Hi - I see you are a keen bench man. There are some beautiful photos here - love the blog. I write about benches and have a recent post about big and small. I needed a man-on-a-small-bench type of photo and hope you don't mind that I have used this one, credited to you and your blog of course. If you want to have a look it's at http://benchsite.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/big-and-small-and-tiny-and-cute.html.
Do let me know if you're not happy and I will take it down. Best wishes, Miggy
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