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Even if a Rountree falls in the forest, is anybody listening?

In the special election today, the candidate who was in it for her career advancement came in last and will not return to the ballot in November, will not pass go, and will not collect $200.
Unofficial Results from the Montgomery County Board of Elections: [1]

Number of Precincts 95
Precincts Reporting 95
100.0 %
Times Counted 5147/93207 5.5 %
Total Votes 9593
1) Matt Joseph 3088 32.19%
2) Chris Shaw 2577 26.86%
3) Scott Sliver 1421 14.81%
4) Darryl Fairchild 1365 14.23%
5) Hazel Rountree 1142 11.90%
Only the top 4 advance.
Let’s be realistic though. The reported 93,207 voters is inflated by at least double, since we don’t purge voters off the rolls unless we have to.
Best case in a presidential we had about 44K.
So with 10% of the people voting- 5147, there should have been a total number of votes of double that- since everyone got 2 votes, or 10,294, but we have 9,593 total votes meaning 701 people didn’t use their second vote, and while that works out great for pushing one candidate or another over the bottom- it’s still not enough to push the number 3 candidate over the number 2.
The party machine sent out 3 mailings for this race.
If they get scared, they’ll spend even more. The real key is who will the people who voted for Hazel back in the fall?
We’ll see what happens over the next six months.
As to Hazel losing- in my humble opinion, it couldn’t have happened to a more arrogant person. The people of Dayton are better off.
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truddick

Omitted here is the cost to the public, which is hard to deduce. Estimated national average election cost per voter = $10, but in a ho-hum non-election like this, that skyrockets. Let’s conservatively estimate $20 per voter. OK, that means we spent almost $200K to decide that Hazel Rountree will not be on the ballot (I’m tempted to write her in just to be obnoxious).

We need to think hard about whether, as citizens, we want to participate in this needless election. Even better, we need to elect people who will amend the city charter to fix this unfortunate error in our council election process. Then that $200K could go to other things–schools, libraries, public safety if we’re lucky, or river fountains, tax breaks for mega-corporations, bread-and-circuses if we’re not.

Ralph

Agree with Truddick. It’s further compounded when it’s always the same party politics in Dayton anyway.

Bismark

Now that she didn’t make the 1st cut, I can admit to the perverse fantasy of watching Roundtree and her immense sense of self pitted against that of the Whale. Roundtree is intelligent, well spoken and more articulate than the 2.0 GPA U of D graduate now sitting as Dayton Mayor. It would have create for some mighty fireworks. Just say’n…

Auston Hensley

May 2015 marks the first time since turning 18 that I didn’t bother to vote in an election.

With the possible exception of Sliver, I didn’t have a single horse in the race… and he stands little chance of beating the endorsed Democrats in the fall… and even if he wins, he would only be one vote out of five and wouldn’t get much done.

How much higher would voter participation be if the Montgomery County Democrats didn’t choke off the lifeblood of this region?

Jeff G

Low turn out was probably due to lack of early voting opportunities.
Oh, wait, there were plenty of opportunities?
Another waste of money. Get rid of early voting.