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The little U.S. community of Barnes County, North Dakota forgot to show up and vote in its mayoral election on June 10th, including its candidates.

According to the current Mayor, usually a half a dozen out of the total population of 11 show up to vote in the elections. But this time no one showed up to vote. "Everybody has got a job and they're busy," said the current Mayor.

Luckily most of the candidates were running unopposed, or it could have caused quite a mess in Barnes County, North Dakota.
Swiyyah

28 responses // Whole town forgot to vote

  • HILL...arious!
    Neghie
  • oh america...

    why not just put that town in with a larger town right next to it...i don't get 11 person towns...
    MissAmanda
  • That's funny! Hope does not become an epidemic behavior through.
    stopnoise
  • Gas is too damn High to show up to vote......
    silverex87
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  • And people say their vote doesnt count:)
    BaggyBagBaggy
  • wow. very funny.
    diode
  • P.Diddy should've visited them.
    timunuhe
  • POP. 11 wow that is small!
    electricsquiral
  • Democracy fail.
    Dmitri_Molotov
  • Maybe it's like my town where they don't spend much time advertising elections. They are in fact almost a secret. The loyal 5,000 they want to vote of course always show up and vote the way they want. I think this happens in lots of small towns.
    Marilynn_Murray
  • Apathy: It's good for the status quo and okay for you!

    - this message brought to you by the United States Department of Condescending Paternalism.
    DJMatt2
  • What do you want from them?

    their town is f*cking 11.
    give them a break.
    squidteeth
  • If this happened more often, maybe the government would open it's collective eyes and see what America really wants. Then of course the courts would get involved and cancel out what we really want as a majority anyway.
    lindaann
  • There can't be very many issues to debate in a town that small. Unless there is a fight over who wants to be the town troubadour.
    kec5040
  • too busy? sadly, many americans (not just this town) feel that way on election day. but you know what? they're not going to be too busy to bitch and moan for the next 4 years when the "elected" officials aren't representing its constituents.
    April_5210
  • In an Ideal democracy, all the voters are fully educated on the issues.
    arturogarza
  • so what do you do in a town of 11 people???? obviously not vote but I think I would die.....
    Meaghan1126
  • This story is false... No town exists with 11 people. You can't call that a town. That's like 1-3 families...

    1 guy can be the mayor, 1 the sherrif, 1 the treasurer...

    It just doesn't make sense. Way to waste computer memory on this crap.
    mrpibb19
  • Not to worry... someone behind the scenes will hack in to the system and give their votes to Mcain come election time.
    iameam
  • Seriously? Someone could have gone to all...3 houses...and knocked on the door to tell them not to forget.
    egarlow
  • thats democracy at its best
    senavicente_86
  • I find that super funny but by i also find it hard to fathom that not one person showed to vote? its on them i guess they didn't want there voice herd so its on them.
    StuArt_Gould
  • http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/17/1?gusrc=rss...
    At least they did a bit better than these folks...
    Blazesboy
  • http://www.co.barnes.nd.us/Related/Facts.asp
    Then why does this link from the Barnes County ND website show a 2000 population of over 11 thousand? Is this bs or what? Was it the entire county?
    JanforGore
  • They were making that money. No time to vote when you getting dolla, dolla bills..YO!
    tanyetta
  • http://www.co.barnes.nd.us/Election/Pctvoteprim2008.pdf
    Bored, I found the actual election results for barnes county nd. it's the 2nd page of the link.
    Alex_Rowland
  • How do you not vote for your self? I'll move there with 12 people and make myself mayor.
    pigmonkey

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