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Major Nikon

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7. School board elections are typically off cycle from major elections

Reply to Docreed2003 (Reply #4)

Tue Dec 18, 2018, 10:02 AM

Dec 2018

Local churches have a very aggressive GOTV effort for all such elections and as such are disparately represented. In Texas we typically get several no-shit young earth creationist loons on the state school board.

As a rule I think society would be lots better off if zoning laws required at least one bar for each church and all polling places moved into them.

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This was passed by the state legislature Docreed2003 Dec 2018 #11

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