Case and I have been suffering from the let down - now that Tuesday's party is over. I am referring to the Wisconsin Presidential Primary. For more than a week we were the center of the political universe. Boy, was that exciting! Candidates showing up at large and small venues. We watched all of this from the comfort of our living room, but, nevertheless, the excitement was felt. Both of us are election inspectors as they are called in WI. Getting ready Tuesday morning was as exciting as the big ski race day. We were giddy. There are 303 registered voters in our "Town of Spider Lake." 186 voted which is about 61% voter turnout. There was no down time. The time went quickly. I left at 2:30 when the next inspector came on duty. Case and another inspector were there from 6:30 am to 10 pm. I don't work the whole time because President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 freeing the slaves. 15.5 hours of work with NO breaks is slavery in my opinion and I won't do it. Thank you, Abe.
Another reason we were giddy was because we felt we were facilitating the Stop Trump campaign which was running strong. The state did just that - stop Trump. However, here are the results of our polling place. And our county followed suit. We were disappointed. So Trump received 3 delegates from the northern part of the state and 3 delegates from the western part of WI. The rest went to Cruz.
Trump 69
Cruz 35
Kasich 23
Sanders 34
Clinton 20
There were only two candidates running for two positions on the local town board. They received 139 and 126 votes and 1 vote for "Dave" - one of the election inspectors! I guess that brought a little levity to the late night counting situation.
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