Boat needed in one Minneapolis voting precinct

November 13, 2012 @ 1:23 pm


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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Not one voter cast a ballot in one Minneapolis precinct on Election Day. That's because the only living species in Ward 10, Precinct 3B, is of the aquatic variety.

A newly redistricted precinct map shows 3B is located entirely in the eastern half of Lake Calhoun _ the biggest lake in Minneapolis. City Clerk Casey Carl says the watery precinct is the "unintentional result of a programming error" made in drawing new ward boundary lines.

Charter Commission chairman Barry Clegg tells the Star Tribune ( http://tinyurl.com/bhtca7n) that the mapping software couldn't draw a line around the edge of the lake without putting a census block in the wrong ward. Clegg says it was supposed to be cleaned up for the final map, but never was.

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Information from: Star Tribune, http://www.startribune.com


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  • longwayhome wrote...
    The republicans screwed up.
    November 13, 2012 2:56 pm
    This part of Mpls. is very upscale and wealthy (not the lake) The Lake Calhoun area. With re-districting they were hoping to capitalize on the upper income persons of the area. My sister told me all about it, it's quite a joke on the republicans. But then, what isn't?
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