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podcast number one thousand two hundred and fifty six the the rare date of feb

29 twenty four sixty 61 degrees on this day in year 2000, and it was 10 below on this day in 1884.

Hail the flashlight king!

And now from the mayor's office above the boat house on the east shore of Spoon Lake.

It's Garage Logic with Chris Reaver's Manning Technology Corner,

Kenny Olson from the Krabby Coffee Shop, John Hight in the Newsroom,

and of course, the rookie.

Here is your flashlight king,

Fireworks commissioner,

and the keeper of common sense.

Your mayor, Joe Sucher.

We're joined in the studio by Dan McGrath who is an election. How did you become an election

guru, savant, experts?

Well, it was never my intention. I was hired to do some writing and research at a

nonprofit organization called Minnesota majority back in 2007. And in the summer of 2008, one of my projects I was working on was just doing survey calls

or registered voters on the issues that were important to them for that election year.

Our surveys, our volunteers who were conducting the surveys kept coming up to me after

making a call and saying, well this is weird.

They answered the phone and said the guy I'm calling died 10 years ago but according

to the voter registration files what we were using to make the calls he voted in the last

election. Okay. So with the large data set like the statewide voter registration system there are going to be some errors. That just happens.

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