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So the big news from my own perspective is that I appear to have won a seat on the school board thanks to my Ward Seven write-in candidacy. The unofficial tally shown to me and Tom Fleury said there were 121 write in votes and I won 66 of them. Greg Jenkins, the city council candidate came in second in the school board race with about 45 votes. So that's good. Winning a write-in election is a rare feat, especially with a name like mine. I'll do my best as a school commissioner.
Council results: Ed won again in ward One. The Dem squeaked past the Prog in Ward Two. Emma won unopposed in Three. Kurt beat Russ Ellis in Four. Keogh and Paul return from Five and Six respectively. In Ward Seven Paul Decelles won re-election with 911 votes. The "s" in "Decelles" is silent. It's pronounced "Deh-sell."
Ed said the mayor should step down on Channel 17 and then Kurt went overboard in chiding him about it.
We have voted to repeal instant runoff voting.
Now that IRV has been repealed, what probably should be done is have an item placed on the ballot requiring that a candidate for mayor win 50% of the votes in the first round or proceed to a second round with the 2 highest vote getters from the first round.
ReplyDeleteI'm not going to push for that. The forty percent threshold is fine.
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