Monday, June 1, 2009

Awesomest Municipal Politics Story of the Year

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reports.Awesomest Municipal Politics Story of the Year: Neither the city clerk nor the reporter nor the local Deep Throat understand the concept of rational numbers. "Idiocracy, here we come!" as one Redditor commented.

"Brazil said she used the calculation of .66 multiplied by 206 to obtain the number. But using .6666 — a more accurate version of two-thirds — the affirmative vote needed to be 137 instead of 136, according to an anonymous caller to town hall and to the
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