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Philadelphia write-in candidate: I won with one vote
A Philadelphia resident was shocked to receive a letter Friday saying they won an election earlier in the month — apparently because no one else cast a vote.
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Wow, talk about a popular mandate.
I wonder if they just appoint someone to relatively minor offices like this if no one gets that single vote. Or if somebody's cousin "finds" a vote.
But if you're a candidate at least you vote for yourself. It'd be very strange to have no votes at all, unless there are no candidates.
Something like this
This is true, we have something like 30,000 registered voters and only 2,300 showed up to vote last month on city council positions, I'm guessing less than 1500 this Tuesday for the runoff.