Now we are extremely fragmented, with tons of niche groups. Yet we seem more influenced than ever by the news feed of current events.

You make an interesting point. If I flip it around. WWI and II both began in a mostly pre-television world. I guess you could say televison has brought safety?

The one thing I’ll say in their defense is that a water district board seat, in a special election, is not typically something that generates votes. Perhaps they did that on purpose, thinking the low turnout would help one candidate. We’re talking about school board election numbers. The kind of thing where a bus full of people could swing the whole election.

You’ll know if it was on purpose or not immediately when we see who won and if they try to stick with the result. If they were out of ballots at 9 am, then they shouldn’t even try to count the votes or declare a winner. With the need for a redo being so obvious.

I’m willing to agree with malicious intent if they try keep the result. There should be no need to count the ballots, with the need to redo being so obvious.

The election is unique in that it is organized and managed by the district itself, not the Louisiana Secretary of State’s office, and seats on the board are rarely contested. The race for this particular seat is reported to be the first ever.

So perhaps some degree of incompetence/not having any clue how many people would show up. Not necessarily malicious intent. Seems like it was such a shitshow it’ll force a redo. Clearly it should.

It was also known for people buying cheap IPHONE _boxes

He just says “brah” or “bro” with different inflection. No other words.