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Sure did. I honestly had no idea what district we were assigned to. It does seem that down county can take over these elections.
A more fair setup IMO is only the candidates from that district vote to represent their district on the school board with a couple extra at large.

Only because you haven't looked at the make-up of the Board of Education, which is:

1 board member who lives in District 1
1 board member who lives in District 2
1 board member who lives in District 3
1 board member who lives in District 4
1 board member who lives in District 5
2 board members at large, who can live anywhere
1 student member of the board (SMOB)

And, of course, people get elected to the board of education by having more people vote for them than for the other candidate(s). That's not unfairness, that's democracy.

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Anonymous wrote:When does Stephen Austin’s district seat come for re-election? I think that may be a much better possibility for him than at-large and I hope he runs.

PP, all of the BoE races are county-wide races. The district requirement is that the candidate has to live in the district. But every voter in the county gets to vote for every adult BoE candidate. Just like you voted in the District 4 BoE race last week, even though you don't live in District 4 - right?

Thanks for explaining that. I am not originally from this state. But — this makes absolutely no sense to me. How does it ensure representation of all areas?

Did you vote last week?

Sure did. I honestly had no idea what district we were assigned to. It does seem that down county can take over these elections.
A more fair setup IMO is only the candidates from that district vote to represent their district on the school board with a couple extra at large.

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Anonymous wrote:When does Stephen Austin’s district seat come for re-election? I think that may be a much better possibility for him than at-large and I hope he runs.

PP, all of the BoE races are county-wide races. The district requirement is that the candidate has to live in the district. But every voter in the county gets to vote for every adult BoE candidate. Just like you voted in the District 4 BoE race last week, even though you don't live in District 4 - right?

Thanks for explaining that. I am not originally from this state. But — this makes absolutely no sense to me. How does it ensure representation of all areas?

because the person running in that district is from that district but everyone gets to vote for that district.

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Anonymous wrote:When does Stephen Austin’s district seat come for re-election? I think that may be a much better possibility for him than at-large and I hope he runs.

PP, all of the BoE races are county-wide races. The district requirement is that the candidate has to live in the district. But every voter in the county gets to vote for every adult BoE candidate. Just like you voted in the District 4 BoE race last week, even though you don't live in District 4 - right?

Thanks for explaining that. I am not originally from this state. But — this makes absolutely no sense to me. How does it ensure representation of all areas?

Did you vote last week?

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Anonymous wrote:When does Stephen Austin’s district seat come for re-election? I think that may be a much better possibility for him than at-large and I hope he runs.

PP, all of the BoE races are county-wide races. The district requirement is that the candidate has to live in the district. But every voter in the county gets to vote for every adult BoE candidate. Just like you voted in the District 4 BoE race last week, even though you don't live in District 4 - right?

Thanks for explaining that. I am not originally from this state. But — this makes absolutely no sense to me. How does it ensure representation of all areas?

Anonymous wrote:Yes the district thing is just so Silver Spring doesnt dominate the board, right?

I don't understand this "Silver Spring" obsession that some people in the county apparently have.

-resident of the upcounty (but you can call it upper northwest Silver Spring, if you want)

Yes the district thing is just so Silver Spring doesnt dominate the board, right?

We shouldn’t cater to the special interests of someone who only cares about his property values. The vast majority of Montgomery County disagrees with him. His followers are louder and richer but the voters spoke at the ballot box.

Anonymous wrote:When does Stephen Austin’s district seat come for re-election? I think that may be a much better possibility for him than at-large and I hope he runs.

PP, all of the BoE races are county-wide races. The district requirement is that the candidate has to live in the district. But every voter in the county gets to vote for every adult BoE candidate. Just like you voted in the District 4 BoE race last week, even though you don't live in District 4 - right?

When does Stephen Austin’s district seat come for re-election? I think that may be a much better possibility for him than at-large and I hope he runs.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope that the BOE remembers that the public didn’t support Stephen Austin.

He’s in third. It’s not like he came in dead last.
I hope they realize a significant number of people DID support Austin and want change. He also didn’t have the same endorsements that Harris and Dasgupta did, and still got a fair amount of votes.

14,589 voters (14.9%), at last count. 85% of voters (at last count) didn't vote for him.

And 80% of the voters did not vote for Dasgupta. and 72% of the voters did not vote for Harris. So what?

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PPs logic doesn’t make any sense at all.

It's highly likely that Sunil Dasgupta and Lynne Harris will be on the November ballot - and Steve Austin won't.

Possible. Unless his supporters and supporters of other "no boundary analysis" candidates all decide to vote for Stephen as a write-in candidate. We may be able to pull off a Murkowski.

Have at it, PP. He couldn't even get 15% (probably) when his name was on the ballot, but dream big.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope that the BOE remembers that the public didn’t support Stephen Austin.

He’s in third. It’s not like he came in dead last.
I hope they realize a significant number of people DID support Austin and want change. He also didn’t have the same endorsements that Harris and Dasgupta did, and still got a fair amount of votes.

14,589 voters (14.9%), at last count. 85% of voters (at last count) didn't vote for him.

And 80% of the voters did not vote for Dasgupta. and 72% of the voters did not vote for Harris. So what?

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PPs logic doesn’t make any sense at all.

It's highly likely that Sunil Dasgupta and Lynne Harris will be on the November ballot - and Steve Austin won't.

Possible. Unless his supporters and supporters of other "no boundary analysis" candidates all decide to vote for Stephen as a write-in candidate. We may be able to pull off a Murkowski.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope that the BOE remembers that the public didn’t support Stephen Austin.

He’s in third. It’s not like he came in dead last.
I hope they realize a significant number of people DID support Austin and want change. He also didn’t have the same endorsements that Harris and Dasgupta did, and still got a fair amount of votes.

14,589 voters (14.9%), at last count. 85% of voters (at last count) didn't vote for him.

And 80% of the voters did not vote for Dasgupta. and 72% of the voters did not vote for Harris. So what?

+1
PPs logic doesn’t make any sense at all.

It's highly likely that Sunil Dasgupta and Lynne Harris will be on the November ballot - and Steve Austin won't.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope that the BOE remembers that the public didn’t support Stephen Austin.

He’s in third. It’s not like he came in dead last.
I hope they realize a significant number of people DID support Austin and want change. He also didn’t have the same endorsements that Harris and Dasgupta did, and still got a fair amount of votes.

14,589 voters (14.9%), at last count. 85% of voters (at last count) didn't vote for him.

And 80% of the voters did not vote for Dasgupta. and 72% of the voters did not vote for Harris. So what?

+1
PPs logic doesn’t make any sense at all.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope that the BOE remembers that the public didn’t support Stephen Austin.

He’s in third. It’s not like he came in dead last.
I hope they realize a significant number of people DID support Austin and want change. He also didn’t have the same endorsements that Harris and Dasgupta did, and still got a fair amount of votes.

14,589 voters (14.9%), at last count. 85% of voters (at last count) didn't vote for him.

And 80% of the voters did not vote for Dasgupta. and 72% of the voters did not vote for Harris. So what?

So, does Austin speak for a substantial proportion of Montgomery County residents? No, he doesn't. Something to keep in mind, from now on, when people on DCUM talk about people [meaning, people like them] do or don't want.