WHITE BEAR TOWNSHIP 1858 RAMSEY COUNTY MINNESOTA News&Views A bi-weekly section where readers will be informed on subjects of seasonal interest, upcoming events and other timely topics. A tie was once broken with a ping pong ball. In 1994 the House of Representatives race in Wyoming ended in a tie which the governor broke by pulling a Ping-Pong ball adorned with the name of the winner out of a cowboy hat. In Nevada they settle ties by drawing cards, image that, high card wins. This last happened in 2011 when neither candidate in a North Las Vegas city council primary would pay the $600 recount fee. CAMPER & BOAT STORAGE make their selections their ballots - PDF's of the paper ballots they'd receive in the mail, are beamed back down to Earth where clerks open the encoded documents & submit a hard copy of the astronaut's ballot to be counted. Why are elections on Tuesday's you ask, well in the 19th century when farmers often had to travel long distances to the nearest polling place they didn't want to travel on Sunday, & they needed to be back home for market day on Wednesday, so Tuesday was the "convenient" day. Farming also explains why we vote in November- the harvest was over. In Gambia, Africa, where literacy is an issue, citizens cast their votes in a non-traditional way. They drop marbles into color-coded drums with pictures of their candidates. Each drum is rigged with a bell, which the marble, after it's dropped in, dings & if the bell dings more than once, workers will know that someone has broken the rules. By the end of the 2020 Presidential race it will have lasted 1,194 days, or the equivalent of 99 election seasons in Japan. By law, Japanese political campaigns cannot last more than 12 days. In France, they can last no longer than 2 weeks. REGULATIONS BEGINNING NOVEMBER 1ST - Outside storage of boats, travel trailers, campers & camping buses has been changed, parking on or adjacent to a driveway is only allowed from April Ist through November 1st. Snowmobiles may be parked on or adjacent to driveways from November 1st to March 31st. FUN & INTERESTING ELECTION FACTS - WINTER PARKING RESTRICTIONS BEGINNING NO NOVEMBER 1ST - No vehicle may park on any road or aVERNIGH PARKING Fun Facts: George Washington used his entire campaign budget to buy drinks on Election Day. He purchased 160 - gallons of liquor & served it to the 391 voters. Buying booze was the norm until 1811 when Maryland passed the first campaign finance reform law prohibiting the street in the Township between the hours of 2 a.m. & 6 a.m. from November Ist through April 1st, or any time after a snowfall of one or more inches until the road is cleared curb to curb. purchase of alcohol for voters. The United States is one of the few democracies that doesn't make Election Day a national holiday. A cartoonist created the famous two-party symbols, the elephant & donkey, in a carton in 1874. Since 1997 astronauts have had the ability to vote. Once they November 6 - National Nacho Day What's November 11- Township Office's Closed - Veterans Day Happening November 26-27 - Township Office's Closed- Thanksgiving Holiday Find us on Facebook Visit www.whitebeartownship.org or call 651.747.2750 1281 Hammond Road, White Bear Township, Minnesota 55110 WHITE BEAR TOWNSHIP 1858 RAMSEY COUNTY MINNESOTA News&Views A bi-weekly section where readers will be informed on subjects of seasonal interest, upcoming events and other timely topics. A tie was once broken with a ping pong ball. In 1994 the House of Representatives race in Wyoming ended in a tie which the governor broke by pulling a Ping-Pong ball adorned with the name of the winner out of a cowboy hat. In Nevada they settle ties by drawing cards, image that, high card wins. This last happened in 2011 when neither candidate in a North Las Vegas city council primary would pay the $600 recount fee. CAMPER & BOAT STORAGE make their selections their ballots - PDF's of the paper ballots they'd receive in the mail, are beamed back down to Earth where clerks open the encoded documents & submit a hard copy of the astronaut's ballot to be counted. Why are elections on Tuesday's you ask, well in the 19th century when farmers often had to travel long distances to the nearest polling place they didn't want to travel on Sunday, & they needed to be back home for market day on Wednesday, so Tuesday was the "convenient" day. Farming also explains why we vote in November- the harvest was over. In Gambia, Africa, where literacy is an issue, citizens cast their votes in a non-traditional way. They drop marbles into color-coded drums with pictures of their candidates. Each drum is rigged with a bell, which the marble, after it's dropped in, dings & if the bell dings more than once, workers will know that someone has broken the rules. By the end of the 2020 Presidential race it will have lasted 1,194 days, or the equivalent of 99 election seasons in Japan. By law, Japanese political campaigns cannot last more than 12 days. In France, they can last no longer than 2 weeks. REGULATIONS BEGINNING NOVEMBER 1ST - Outside storage of boats, travel trailers, campers & camping buses has been changed, parking on or adjacent to a driveway is only allowed from April Ist through November 1st. Snowmobiles may be parked on or adjacent to driveways from November 1st to March 31st. FUN & INTERESTING ELECTION FACTS - WINTER PARKING RESTRICTIONS BEGINNING NO NOVEMBER 1ST - No vehicle may park on any road or aVERNIGH PARKING Fun Facts: George Washington used his entire campaign budget to buy drinks on Election Day. He purchased 160 - gallons of liquor & served it to the 391 voters. Buying booze was the norm until 1811 when Maryland passed the first campaign finance reform law prohibiting the street in the Township between the hours of 2 a.m. & 6 a.m. from November Ist through April 1st, or any time after a snowfall of one or more inches until the road is cleared curb to curb. purchase of alcohol for voters. The United States is one of the few democracies that doesn't make Election Day a national holiday. A cartoonist created the famous two-party symbols, the elephant & donkey, in a carton in 1874. Since 1997 astronauts have had the ability to vote. Once they November 6 - National Nacho Day What's November 11- Township Office's Closed - Veterans Day Happening November 26-27 - Township Office's Closed- Thanksgiving Holiday Find us on Facebook Visit www.whitebeartownship.org or call 651.747.2750 1281 Hammond Road, White Bear Township, Minnesota 55110