Fewer Voters, And A Prop 1 Phone Blitz

So, somebody said today’s election day. There were no lines at Merriman Park’s Hotchkiss Elementary School at 10 a.m., when my better half and I became the 48th and 49th people to vote there (Precinct 2220). For comparison’s sake, last Nov. 4, I was the 102nd person to vote at the school at 8:30 a.m. Not long afterward this morning, I got a cellphone call from a friend in the commercial real estate industry, downtown variety, urging me to go vote No on Proposition 1. Part of what Mayor Tom Leppert must have meant when he said, “We’re trying to do everything we can to get the vote out.”