They turned the music off.

The Swamp people are doing their song outside. It’s pretty loud.

Eh, good for them.

Warda’s cake is good.

I don’t think anybody’s reading my liveblog, including the Alligator reporters, who are the only ones who I thought might look at it.

I’ve been told the turnout numbers for the election are 7,149.

That’s a sizeable increase over last Fall, which was 6,666. And a year ago, they used secure-site online voting. I thought they actually increased turnout.

From my experience, it’d seemed like there was more voter apathy than last year. Guess not.

Maybe it’s the VP race that upped turnout, or the 4 candidates, or the joke party. Dunno. Given the Alligator non-endorsement and (prior to that) general trashing of just about everybody, I thought that’d actually turn voters off, since there was no clear “good guy” put forward.

Guess nobody reads the Alligator.

About 30 people just sang “Happy Birthday” to Action candidate Warda Ali. (It’s her birthday.)

We sang to her earlier at dinner, but we have a cake for her now.

There is a large water spill near the counter. There’s a “Wet Floor” sign, but I’m pretty much counting on some drunk SG’er slipping on it.

Sen. Ryan Nelson.

‘Twas something in the beargroves. What the fuck does that mean? Delete that. OK.

He says he’ll resign if he’s elected again. Bitch.

‘Cus we have, like, a couple thousand.

I could say it was planning for the run-off, but I’m not sure how accurate that is.

‘Nuff said.

We, collectively, seem a lot more sober than I thought we’d be.