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Election day in Co-Op City

Today was the long awaited election day in Co-Op City. There are 5 people to be elected for the Co-Op City Board of Directors. Every Co-Op City resident is allowed to vote for his or her favourite candidate in a voting booth located in the lobby. There is one voting booth in all 35 buildings of Co-Op City. And they look really weired, seem to be from the 70ties... To make sure the elections are held correctly there must be an election worker from both parties, from the Democrats as well as from the Republicans, present at all time.

It's a day for which I've already been waiting since I arrived in New York. The special thing about these elections are the election campaigns held in the forefield. Never saw such dirty and shallow campaigns full of attacks. The campaign flyers which have always been shoved under the appartments door did not only attack the competitive political party but they attacked certain persons personally in a very uneloquent way. I kept all these flyers I got for future references... :-) I don't yet know who did it, but I've been told that this is not really important since things never change.

Posted by Martin Fuchs on May 18, 2005 06:58 PM