Salon.com > lake calhoun http://www.salon.com Sat, 18 May 2013 19:30:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Weird news: Zero voter turnout for one Minneapolis precinct http://www.salon.com/2012/11/13/weird_news_zero_voter_turnout_for_one_minneapolis_precinct/ http://www.salon.com/2012/11/13/weird_news_zero_voter_turnout_for_one_minneapolis_precinct/#comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:59:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13072157 MINNEAPOLIS — Not one voter cast a ballot in one Minneapolis precinct on Election Day. That's because the only living species in Ward 10, Precinct 3B, is of the aquatic variety.

A newly redistricted precinct map shows 3B is located entirely in the eastern half of Lake Calhoun - the biggest lake in Minneapolis. City Clerk Casey Carl says the watery precinct is the "unintentional result of a programming error" made in drawing new ward boundary lines.

Charter Commission chairman Barry Clegg tells the Star Tribune that the mapping software couldn't draw a line around the edge of the lake without putting a census block in the wrong ward. Clegg says it was supposed to be cleaned up for the final map, but never was.

 

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