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Mon May 18, 2026, 10:20 PM Monday

Voted my primary ballot today. I had to... [View all]

... pick up to 20 choices from a long list for members of the county Democratic Central Committee. A lot of names of people I don't know anything about... other than that they want to volunteer for dems in the county. Some of them have a Facebook page or something like that, but none of them are actually campaigning. So how do I choose?

I could select the first 20. Or the last 20. Or maybe use a random number table. But why vote at all then? How do I make some sort of reasonable selection?

What I did was look up who is on the committee, and voted for all the candidates who were not. I ended up voting for 15 candidates who are not already serving - you don't have to vote all 20. Maybe not the best choice, but at least I had some, somewhat reasonable, criteria!

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