WHAT IF YOU HAD AN ELECTION AND NO ONE CAME?

They say in America people take voting for granted. Well, in Pillsbury, North Dakota, they held an election and no on came. Not one single vote, including the candidates themselves! “Everybody has got a job and they're busy,” the current Mayor of Pillsbury, Darrel Brudevold said. “It just worked out that nobody seemed to go down there to the polls.”  Too busy to vote. Come on, have we fallen that far in America? OK, what do you do now? Do you win by default or do you lose by default?  Brudevold said he intended to vote, but that he had crops to tend. He said he assumed at least one person would show up to vote. See what assuming gets you, nada. But since no one did, Brudevold said he'll ask state election officials what to do next. Yea I bet you will. How do you explain that. “Uh we tried to have an election and no one voted, Do I win?” Dude you didn’t even vote for yourself. Brudevold, who has been mayor for a dozen years and was an alderman before that, said he doesn't think the current five-member body will change. You mean you’re hoping it doesn’t change. Brudevold's wife, Ruth, runs the beauty shop and is the town's postmaster. She said she was too busy with work to make it to the polls. Whatever happened to that middle America vote or die attitude. Do you folks sleep through the Fourth of July? Barnes County Auditor Ed McGough said those in office can stay there and appoint people, including themselves, to the jobs until the next election. There’s democracy in action. That’s so much easier when you’re not busy. “I presume things will stay the same,” Brudevold said. “We're just a little village, and when you're elected to one of those jobs, well, once you get it, you got it. The only time we really get people to show up is when we want to raise taxes - then everybody shows up.” Maybe they should have had a tax proposal on this one. They need to change the name of this town to Apathyville. The town where too busy is more important than the right to vote.