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Oooooh, your Junkie loves to vote. We vote for everything: national elections, state elections, local elections, CNN QuickPolls, the SFGate Question, BizRate surveys about our Priceline experiences, those "How'd We Do?" cards where you rank things on a scale of 1 to 5 -- we are all about letting your voice be heard!
So of course we're totally psyched about the mock election the San Francisco Department of Elections is throwing! Get your franchised self down to the basement of City Hall on or before August 12 and help them test out their disability access polling machines! There's two types of touch screens, with breath-voting capability ("sip-puff" machines, they're called. Heh heh. Sip puff.), foot pedals, and audio aids.
So what are you voting for? Well, keeping it nonpartisan, the Dept. of Elections has selected the categories of: best flower, best animal, and best San Francisco attraction. Aw, come on!! Best flower? If you're voting in the mock election, you want to vote for something sexier than that! So.... in honor of the Dept. of Elections, SFist and your Political Junkie are rolling out our own mock election: Hottest SF Supervisor!!!!!
Vote after the jump!
Okay, here's your options. In the front, going left to right: Fiona "Li'l Fifi" Ma (Sunset); Sophie "B." Maxwell (Potrero/Hunters Point); Tom "Old School" Ammiano (Bernal); Bevan "Legal Briefs" Dufty (Castro/Noe); Michaela "Miss Manners" Alioto-Pier (Marina). In the back: Gerardo "Pass the Hat" Sandoval (Ingleside/Excelsior); Sean "Starbucks" Elsbernd (um, that middle part of SF around the hill); Aaron "The Prez" Peskin (North Beach/Chinatown); Ross "Batman" Mirkarimi (the Haight); and Jake "Born and Bred in the Ghet-TO" McGoldrick (the Richmond).
The eagle-eyed among you will notice that there's only 10 supervisors in this picture. That's because pugilist Chris Daly refused to be in the picture that day (said he didn't like the glasses he was wearing. Oh, Chris, we just want to hug you!) So here's a picture of him for your consideration as well. No, you can't vote for Matt Gonzalez in this poll, he's not on the board anymore. (but isn't that picture awesome? From Matt's webpage -- sorry, we couldn't find a photo credit.)
Anyways! Suffrage for all! Vote early and often!
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Sophie "B." Maxwell—Damn, I wish I was your constituent!
How about setting up the poll using IRV? You can set up free IRV polls at http://www.demochoice.org/
Monsieur C-, maybe you speak in lustful haste...
As to IRV, don't worry -- I've thought of the joke, but haven't written the Perl script. If somebody wanted to step in and fulfill a lazyweb request by a friendly reader...
Okay, you say vote early and often but the poll puts some sort of cookie on my machine and will only let me vote once.
How am I expected to represent the clear intentions of all of my dead relatives if I can only vote once?