Baltimore: Nobody Votes, Everybody Pays

This is what ennui looks like:

Judging from the sparse turnout at the Fells Point school, there were probably lots of stickers awaiting voters that may never show up. The same scenario was expected at the city’s other 289 polling places. City election officials were predicting only about 10 percent of the city’s 370,000 registered voters would cast ballots. That would make the Sept. 13 primary election look like it was crowded. About 23 percent voted in that primary despite a contested race between Rawlings-Blake and rivals Otis Rolley and Catherine Pugh.

There's a Republican and a Libertarian voting, and neither party even bothered to make an effort to contest this election. A city in which 10% of the population vote in a general election is a city with votes for the picking. The GOP and Libs should start a Baltimore Protest/Reform Party, and march through the streets until someone pays attention.

Of course, all that requires money and moral courage, neither of which are in abundance here.