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Margaret Pilarski

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i'm a feminist, and if you're reading this then you are too, you just might not know it yet. i like to eat cheese and travel, but i'm usually broke and/or spending my money on shoes and cocktail rings. i love dogs, rain, and driving offensively (and putting the last comma in a listed series). i'm se...

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gimme a D!

blah blah blah, what was i going to spell? DEMOCRACY! today is primary runoff day. i can’t find any map of district 111 that doesn’t look like someone had a sneeze attack while playing with photoshop, so just know that it’s part of the peninsula and then outwards a smidge.

this morning i popped over to the local elementary school to vote for a state house representative – it’s between wendell gilliard and clay middleton.

[alert: prepare for math, or skip next paragraph] 

only about 250 votes separated them in the primary, and at 8:50 this morning, 20 people had voted before me. apparently, that’s pretty good turnout thus far, but if you do the math, that’s only about 10 people per hour, which means at the end of the day, at this rate, that’s only 120 people voting at my precinct. so 120 per precinct, times 18 precincts, equals about 2160 votes to divvy up between these dudes. in a race as close as this, i feel like my vote really counts, and isn’t that what democracy is for?

this is me, loving democracy:

apparently, my head is gigantic.