Just read this in the Guardian's backbencher email:

Arkansas NBC ('Coverage You Can Count On') was in polemical mood last week. 'Carl Miner of Blytheville has gotten a very important lesson on why voters should go to the polls,' it admonished readers. 'Miner was on Tuesday's ballot, unopposed for a school board seat in south Mississippi County. No one voted for him - and the candidate didn't even cast a ballot for himself.' Common oversight, surely? 'Miner says he tried to vote but the polling place near his zone was closed,' reports the channel, adding perspicaciously: 'He says he thinks he gets the seat because no one else was on the ballot.' It was the first time in Mississippi County that a whole precinct had failed to vote. Now that's what the Backbencher calls post- democracy.

B-)