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TexasTowelie

(111,279 posts)
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 10:00 PM Aug 2017

Politics may not get Minnesotans out to vote, but beer and sausage might

Minnesota has long boasted the highest voter turnout in the country for national elections. A whopping 75 percent of us rocked the polls in 2016.

But we can climb right down from that high horse when it comes to local and municipal elections. In 2013, just 28 percent of Minneapolitans and 15.5 percent of St. Paulites voted for mayor.

The solution? Replace politicians with craft pours and pork products. Sort of.

Minnesota’s chapter of the national nonprofit, FairVote, has been teaming up with local chefs and brewers in the Twin Cities to host tasting events where people sample food and drinks, then elect their favorite using a ranked-choice voting system. FairVote MN advocates for cities around the state to adopt ranked-choice voting, a system they think will make elections more democratic and, eventually, improve voter turnout. They've put on over a dozen of these tasting events, serving samples of anything from wine to waffles.

“Anything you can put on a ballot, we’ve done,” Jeanne Massey, executive director of FairVote MN, says.

Read more: http://www.citypages.com/restaurants/politics-may-not-get-minnesotans-out-to-vote-but-beer-and-sausage-might/442001413

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Politics may not get Minnesotans out to vote, but beer and sausage might (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2017 OP
Works every time. Wellstone ruled Aug 2017 #1
 

Wellstone ruled

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1. Works every time.
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 10:30 PM
Aug 2017

And in Western Minny,Lutefisk and Meatball dinners. With plenty of coffee. You-becha!!!!!!!

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