05/04/10 10:41 - 60ºF - ID#51502

21st voter

I just voted in the School Board election. I was the 21st voter at my local polling place for two election districts combined.

I heard that turnout was low. But I had no idea it i was this low.

tiburon1724 writes at 03:42:33 07/31/10 - Comment #57577: I'm guilty of being a non-voter myself. I really only vote in Presedential, Governors and Mayors races as I know nothing about the other candidates nor do I really care enough to spend the time to research it to be perfectly honest. I'm lazy. As are most Americans.

james writes at 06:11:12 05/05/10 - Comment #56048: I was #344 out of 28K at my polling place at 7PM.

This election was awful. Our choices were either incumbents or candidatures illegally receiving tens of thousands of dollars from out of town special interests, as written about in Artvoice: :::link:::

Generally, the incumbents were terrible. But, between the incompetence you know and the incompetence someone buys I would rather in the incumbents.

Jay McCarthy is an special disaster. The son of a judge, the product of private schools, a bartender by trade he is replacing one of the few sane voices on the school board. Far be it for me to say anything bad about bartenders, but this man has not shown up to any of the candidates night I or my colleagues have gone to. Instead he has sent his campaign manager. His campaign pitch: "He was a bartender at the pink, so you know he loves you!"

His platform is fluff. His literature with my notes:
Busing - don't let black kids into your white neighborhood!
Accountability - How? He wont say.

A waste of a seat. I hope he does some good, but I doubt he is doing anything more than letting his daddy polish up his roguish GW Bush like son into something respectable.

uncutsaniflush writes at 02:57:39 05/05/10 - Comment #56046: I usually vote early in the morning so being a single digit voter doesn't seem all that weird to me.

heidi writes at 03:32:25 05/05/10 - Comment #56039: 4.19% according to the unofficial results here:http://www.elections.erie.gov/content.aspx?id=133

janelle writes at 02:50:48 05/05/10 - Comment #56037: They said voter turnout is usually 6% and this year was closer to 2%. So sad.

heidi writes at 12:35:11 05/05/10 - Comment #56036: I was #11 around 6:30 tonight :-/

metalpeter writes at 11:58:06 05/04/10 - Comment #56035: well voter turnout is low generally and if you don't have kids who go to public school then you even have less voters, and maybe even people who do have kids don't really care. I think the only time when turn out for that is good is when there is some political issue with the schools.