[Homer_J_Simpson]

[Continued from November 2 (reply #8).]

November 3. Voted, on my way downtown, in Twentieth Street. My contribution to the new glass ballot-boxes was a mosaic, little bits from all the tickets, and one or two John Smiths and William Browns derived from my imagination, for in some cases I knew nothing good of any candidate. It has been the quietest of elections. Voting was like going to daily service, a lonely thing to do. Even the ticket distributors in their little boxes seemed desolate and dreary as Simon Stylites (or Simon Stock, rather, in his hollow tree), and found it a delightful novelty to be asked whether this was a verdant voter’s legal district who was the other candidate for assemblyman or constable, and the like.

The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

[Tax-chick]

... for in some cases I knew nothing good of any candidate.

Sounds like the County Commissioners election around here. We vote for Town Council next Tuesday, and there are actually several good choices. Drainage is the big issue.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from November 3 (reply #14).

The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas