Ancestors

Written by Taylor R Campbell on 2024-11-07 at 16:16

I'm at the Massachusetts post-election audit drawing, a process pursuant to Massachusetts general laws ch. 54 § 109A where precincts are chosen at random from a tumbler to audit ballots.

https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleVIII/Chapter54/Section109A

Many people are disappointed in the election results, but it is important to maintain institutions of democratic legitimacy!

[#]mapoli #boston

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Toot

Written by Taylor R Campbell on 2024-11-07 at 16:18

So far we've got these lucky winners:

Boston 11-7

Lowell 1-2

Montague 4

Cambridge 6-1

Lowell 5-4

Quincy 2-1

North Andover 2

Yarmouth 8

Lynn 5-3

Princeton 1

North Attleboro 4

Weymouth 1

Dartmouth 1

South Hadley D

Webster 3

Boston 1-12

South Hadley E

New Bedford 6-B

Methuen 2

New Bedford 5-B

North Adams 5-5

Belmont 7

Northampton 2-A

Malden 3-2

Waltham 8-2A

Lowell 2-3

Northborough 1

Melrose 1-2

Dalton 1

Montgomery 1

Revere 1-3

Uxbridge 3

Newton 2-3

Swansea 5

Chelsea 1-4

Leominster 2-B

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Descendants

Written by Taylor R Campbell on 2024-11-07 at 16:19

(or losers, as the poor officials who have to do the hand counts feel)

Acushnet 2-A

Lawrence A-2

Lynn 7-2

Cambridge 2-2

Stoneham 7

Blackstone 2

Marshfield 4

Edgartown 1

Peru 1

Ashfield 1

Lynn 1-1

Chelsea 2-1

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Written by Taylor R Campbell on 2024-11-07 at 16:22

Arlington 9

Boston 22-6

Blackstone 1

Boston 18-20

Yarmouth 2

Oxford 2

Springfield 4-A

Springfield 6-C

Boston 18-9

Fairhaven 6

Auburn 5

Woburn 3-1

Still not entirely convinced these are all real Massachusetts town names and not jokes by McSweeney's. Like, is Uxbridge not just a joke about Oxford and Cambridge, Massachusetts?

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/fake-massachusetts-towns

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Written by Taylor R Campbell on 2024-11-07 at 16:25

Stoughton 6

Bridgewater 8

Amesbury 6

Beverley 1-2

Great Barrington D

Peabody 2-1

Winchendon 2

Fitchburg 4-B

Winchester 1

Pembroke 3

Boston 10-8

“And our final victim…”

Grafton 2

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Written by Taylor R Campbell on 2024-11-07 at 16:26

And the ballot question to be audited, drawn from a paper Target bag that was handy because nobody wanted to deal with emptying out the tumbler first, is…

Question 2! Whether to drop MCAS as a graduation requirement for public school students.

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Written by Taylor R Campbell on 2024-11-07 at 16:30

And that's a wrap! Here's the big board on which all the victims were posted:

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Written by Tilde Lowengrimm on 2024-11-08 at 16:29

@riastradh You're thinking of Oxbridge. Uxbridge is the end of the Piccadilly and Metropolitan tube lines going West.

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