The results are in! Megan O’Halloran won the primary for the MPS District 8 School Board seat…and will face second place finisher Kathryn Gabor in the April general election.
Now here are the actual results (keep in mind that this was the only race on the ballot in the entire city of Milwaukee):
6% turnout? 6%?? 7 blank ballots when the only race on the ballot was this school board race?
The winner garnered 1,665 votes? That’s 70 less than I pulled to come in third in 2011 (granted there were other races that year including a state Supreme Court primary…47% turnout). This isn’t democracy.
Seriously. This is a waste of time and money and an insult to the candidates who spent their time and money to run competitive campaigns. There were about a dozen poll workers on hand and one other voter there mid-afternoon when I voted. And there was very very little media attention paid to it.
There is no valid reason that would prevent these elections being moved to an even year next time around!
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