Montgomery District 6 Runoff!

Montgomery held a special election yesterday to fill the City Council District 6 seat left vacant by the untimely demise of Willie Cook. With 13 candidates in the race, a runoff was almost inevitable, and a runoff it is. Candidates John Dow and Andre Bolding will head to a runoff.
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The list of candidates wanting to replace the late city Councilman Willie Cook has been narrowed down to Jon Dow and Andre Bolding Sr. in an outcome decided by a small slice of the population in District 6.

Dow, who is 50, earned 535 votes or more than 35 percent. Bolding walked away with 205 votes, or 13.58 percent. Murphy "Mo" Green narrowly missed the runoff election, getting 195 votes or about 13 percent.

The sad part of this is that only 12% of registered voters bothered to cast a vote at all. John Dow came in first place with 35% of the votes cast, but that means only 4% of registered voters supported him.


THIS is why I hate special elections of any kind. Low turnout is almost guaranteed, and we get a result that doesn't reflect the wishes of the vast majority of the registered voters.

So. We've narrowed this thing down to two men who will have to go through this election thing one more time. And if we have any luck, a few more people will deign to vote... But don't count on it.