From: dannyb@panix.com   
      
   In  "Peter T. Daniels"   
    writes:   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   eyup, nine.   
      
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