CL’s election night coverage
November 3, 2009 at 6:57 pm by Thomas Wheatley in NewsLooking for an entertaining take on Atlanta’s elections? Good news! CL’s crack team of scribes will be out and about this evening in the City Too Busy to Vote. Scott Henry, Joeff Davis and myself will pile into the CL Mobile Meth Lab and risk life and limb to attend campaign parties, talk to people in suits, and keep you updated about results, rumors and skullduggery. CL News Editor Mara Shalhoup will hold down the fort and use the banhammer on people who post links to anonymous Web sites. It shall be a sight to behold, my friends.
Come back to Fresh Loaf around 8:30 and chime in. We’ll update the post throughout the night and pass along photos, videos and reports from campaign soirees. If you have photos or tips you’d like to share, shoot me an email.
The news networks will have regular election result updates. (C’mon, give Fox 5 another chance.) But if you want to watch polling precinct results from the comfort of your couch or barstool, check out the Fulton County Board of Elections’ website. They’ve got several online options you can use to monitor results. The Web site says it will only update every 15 minutes, but it has a nice scrolling feature that you can keep open on your browser.
If you’re looking for a drinking game … hmm … well, we really haven’t thought too much about that. Maybe take a shot every time a candidate says something vague like “move forward” or “change Atlanta?” You’ll be soused by 8:33 p.m. If Mayor Shirley Franklin grabs a mic and starts singing Rammstein’s “Du hast,” just turn that bottle upright and cut loose.
And if you haven’t already voted, there’s still time. Atlanta polls close at 8 p.m. Check out our earlier post if you need help finding out candidate info or where you can vote. Godspeed.
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Why a mobile meth lab and not a coke lab, huh? More anti-Norwood bias?
In the interest of entertaining us, please spend most of your time around Mary this evening. She’ll easily outrun the other mouths with quotable foolishness.
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Over the course of a 3 hour period this afternoon – I walked from my polling place near Crawford Emory Long Hospital down Peachtree Street to the Five Points MARTA Station – Got on the train to North Springs – Rode the 143 bus to Windward Parkway – I saw ONE PERSON with a GA Voter sticker besides me ( A MARTA employee good for them) If that doesn’t tell you the negative impact mayors and city councils past and present have had on our city I don’t know what will