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arbilad


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Larimer county in Colorado, by state law, has to open its polling places for the primary despite the lack of more than one candidate.
At first I thought that this was just another example of government inefficiency, but then I thought about it. There really is no such thing as an uncontested race in the US, since you can write in candidates. Oftentimes a candidate cannot get on the ballot because of lack of signatures, but there's always the remote possibility that he could win a write in campaign. It's happened in the past.
So I think it may actually be good that they have to keep their polls open.


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Yep - write in candidates do occasionally make it.

Also, if people pour out of their homes to vote for only one candidate, that person can claim a 'mandate from the people', and might have a bit more political weight to throw around than if only 2% of the voters actually cared enough to cast a vote for them.



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