PSA- don't forget to vote tomorrow

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PSA- don't forget to vote tomorrow

03-19-2018, 07:13 PM

Spring primary elections are notoriously low voter turnout and sometimes strange things happen as a result...
so get out & vote!

I can recall a couple times that horrible, unknown candidates won just because the turnout of informed voters was so small...

Sen. Nominee Was Kicked Out of Army, Has Felony Charge Pending

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/2010_Elections/alvin-greene-surprise-win-south-carolina-primary-felony/story?id=10867602

Alvin Greene, the surprise South Carolina Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, is facing a pending felony charge, according to court records obtained by the Associated Press. The unemployed military veteran shocked state Democrats Tuesday when he staged a commanding victory over four-term state lawmaker Vic Rawl without the help of a war chest of campaign cash or an orchestrated effort to win voters across the state.

2 CONSERVATIVE EXTREMISTS UPSET DEMOCRATS IN THE ILLINOIS PRIMARY (Published 1986)

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/20/us/2-conservative-extremists-upset-democrats-in-the-illinois-primary.html

It also happened right here in Central IL once-
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