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[romad1]

Went down the rabbit hole of City of Livonia City Council election results from this past Nov 4.

https://livonia.gov/DocumentCenter/View/10747/Nov-4-2025-UNOFFICIAL-City-General-Election-Results?bidId=

Most notable things to me...because they were all "No Party" is the high, high absentee number (Livonia has become a retirement home) and extremely high vote totals (Livonia almost votes at 85% rate of total population and of the voting age population it has to be an extremely high number). 

Numbers rounded to simplify math for my sluggard math skilz

Total pop: 95k

Total vote: 80k 

• Total absentee vote:  55k
• Total day-of vote: 25k

Not relaying any of this as a revelation about trends or anything but that high participation number was really interesting.  I'll take a look at another Detroit suburb or two and compare later today. 

 

 

 

[Tigeraholic1]

Shutting off those USAID funds are having the desired effect.

 

[pfife]

You support the GOP pedo protection program

[romad1]

21 minutes ago, pfife said:

You support the GOP pedo protection program

He also supports removing protections on the most delicious endangered animals so the POTUS' failsons and RFKjr can go murder and eat them 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by romad1

[Tigerbomb13]

1 hour ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Shutting off those USAID funds are having the desired effect.

 

Desired effect indeed. Congrats on this 

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/