The Aussie ballot keeps voters down under
They used to call him “the man with the golden arm.”
Nick Caputo was the Essex County clerk for 29 years. Among the clerk’s duties was the task of putting capsules representing the political parties into a drum and then giving it a good spin. Apparently Caputo had calculated that centrifugal force would keep the capsules in place. And the Democrats got Row A for all but one year of his tenure.