From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   On Monday, June 27, 2016 at 9:03:55 AM UTC-4, danny burstein wrote:   
   > In <17f70e14-8157-45e6-a8a4-9afe88e80815@googlegroups.com> "Peter T.   
   Daniels"  writes:   
      
   > >This morning WNYC's local-politics reporter Bridget Bergen noted   
   > >that Sam Sloan "hasn't really campaigned very much."   
   >   
   > As it happens, his name is the first one of the roughly   
   > half dozen listed on the absentee ballot, so sheer placement   
   > will get him some votes   
      
   He mentioned in his interview that he had drawn "first ballot position," but it   
   used to be that ballot order was rotated among the candidates by precinct so as   
   to remove that bias. Maybe the drawing was only for the absentee ballot?   
      
   BTW there should be 9 candidates.   
      
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