The absentee ballots are in.....

ST. LOUIS COUNTY-PROPOSITION N
**PROHIBITION OF SMOKING**
(Vote for) 1
(WITH 0 OF 480 PRECINCTS COUNTED)

YES. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,872 68.83
NO. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,206 31.17



In county, smoking ban captures advantage among absentees
By Jake Wagman

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Read into this what you like: Absentee ballots in St. Louis County favor the smoking ban by a wide margin.

The first results posted of the day show 69 percent of voters who filled out their ballots early support the smoking ban. The raw numbers, from the county election board:

YES: 4,872 (68.83)
NO: 2,206 (31.17)

In Kirkwood, where voters are deciding a separate, municipal smoking ban, about 73 percent of absentee voters — 244 votes — backed the proposal.

The county emergency radio communications sales tax was also faring well, netting about 64 percent of the absentee ballots.
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"Living with one's fear, without being conditioned by it, that's courage. Otherwise it's no longer courage but recklessness"

-Giovanni Falcone

Woo-hoo!

Hooterville is finally going to enter the 20th Century! It's about time!

Next will be the Casino's!
No smoking Everywhere except your house, your car and outside.
Go baby Go!

Pol Pothead wrote

I think it excludes Casinos. I'm not totally sure of that, but I think I heard that.
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The selfish part of me secretly wants this to pass, but the moral liberty loving side of me realizes that using brute force to achieve my wishes is sort of reprehensible.