You know that sinking feeling when your phone lights up at 2:17 AM? Subject: URGENT – Voting System FAIL. That was me last November. As secretary for the National Urban Planners Association, I’d spent months prepping our board election. We’d gone all out: custom ballots, ranked-choice voting, even a fancy PDF guide. Then… […]
Daily Archives: June 1, 2025
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Let me tell you a story about the worst vote I’ve ever witnessed. It was 2018. My neighborhood book club—a group of 15 caffeine-fueled literary nerds—was electing a new moderator. Sounds simple, right? We’d been arguing about whether to ban Colleen Hoover novels for weeks, but this… this was different. Our […]