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Entire town forgets to vote in election

A small town in America is puzzling over what to do about its mayoral election, after nobody turned up to vote - including the candidates. The current Mayor of Pillsbury, Darrel Brudevold, said voter turnout in the city’s primary election usually is fairly high.

“I dare say a half-dozen people usually make it to the polls,” he said. That represents about a quarter of the residents in the Barnes County farming community, in southeastern North Dakota. But on June 10, reports Metro.co.uk, no one showed up. Not even those on the ballot. Brudevold ran unopposed for re-election.

He said: “Everybody has got a job and they’re busy. It just worked out that nobody seemed to go down there to the polls.”

Brudevold’s wife, Ruth, runs the beauty shop and is the town’s postmaster. She said she was too busy with work to make it to the polls. Brudevold said he intended to vote, but that he had crops to tend.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .