I just sent around this email. Can you do the same? The polls are really, really dead, and it might lead to a pretty shitty result. I am confident that with turnout this low, a couple of races will be decided by a very small amount of votes.

Hey-

So the polls are open, and they are empty. West Philly is dead. In Fairmount, 20 people voted by 9 o’clock. In Germantown, it was about a third of that. This is a really crazy situation, where sitting at home could lead to really bad consequences for our city. When we sit at home, the tired old machine gains a lot of power to choose our leaders....

So, a couple friends and I are trying a little social experiment. We each going to personally email 15 of our friends, and ask them to forward the email on to their friends too. I make no promises, but if you forward the email, Microsoft and America Online might pay you $10,000, and a Nigerian Prince might deposit gold bullion right into your bank account.

This is a crucial election. Here is who I think really stands out (You can find longer explanations of my votes at YoungPhillyPolitics.com.)

District Attorney: Seth Williams. He is a transformational leader, who would greatly change the way the DA system works, including putting prosecutors out into the neighborhoods, turning away from jail sentences for non-violent drug offenders.

Superior Court: Anne Lazarus and John Younge.

Common Pleas Judge: Angeles Roca, Dan Anders, Joyce Eubanks, Diane Thompson and Greg Coleman.

Municipal Court: Dawn Segal, Charles Hayden and Christine Adair.

City Controller: Brett Mandel.

Please vote. And please, please, please, send this or your own message on to some friends who you know that may or may not be coming out to vote. (CC me if you can, if not, no big deal.) This is too important a decision for other people to make the decisions for us.

Dan

Do something. Everyone knows some friends who may or may not vote. Give them a little nudge. If we all even got another couple hundred votes, that would make a huge difference.