{"id":5500,"date":"2009-10-06T23:59:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T03:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=5500"},"modified":"2009-10-06T23:59:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T03:59:52","slug":"james-festerman-re-elected-mayor-of-reidsville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/06\/james-festerman-re-elected-mayor-of-reidsville\/","title":{"rendered":"James Festerman re-elected mayor of Reidsville."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the incumbent mayor of Reidsville who won another term in office tonight! SouthsideCentral is now 1 for 1 in our endorsements this year. \ud83d\ude42 But we&#8217;ve got some questions about the City Council at-large elections.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>James Festerman won his mayoral race over Donald Gorham &#038; Chuck Faint in Tuesday&#8217;s Reidsville elections. Festerman picked up 48% of the vote hanging on over Gorham who pulled 46%. Faint came in a distant third with 6%. Fifty votes was all that spearated the top two candidates, so Faint&#8217;s total of 118 votes definitely had an effect on the election.<\/p>\n<p>The Reidsville City Council at-large race was between six candidates with Tom Balsley &#038; Richard Johnson winning seats on the council. <\/p>\n<p>In a quick breakdown of the numbers, one thing really sticks out as mysteriously odd yet surprisingly familiar. There were 2147 votes total for mayor, and since each voter was able to vote for up to 2 candidates,  the theoretical number of votes for the city council election should have been 4294. There were only 3678 total votes cast for the council race, so that&#8217;s 616 undervotes. That&#8217;s pretty good circumstantial evidence for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bullet_voting\" target=\"_blank\">bullet voting<\/a>. We&#8217;re betting that tactical voting strategy propelled Richard Johnson to a rather sizable second-place (and seat-winning) margin of victory over Terresia Scoble.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the incumbent mayor of Reidsville who won another term in office tonight! SouthsideCentral is now 1 for 1 in our endorsements this year. \ud83d\ude42 But we&#8217;ve got some questions about the City Council at-large elections.<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,22,28,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newscentral","category-opinioncentral","category-politicscentral","category-reidsville-nc","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwqFk-1qI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5476,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/04\/endorsement-james-festerman-for-reidsville-mayor\/","url_meta":{"origin":5500,"position":0},"title":"Endorsement: James Festerman for Reidsville Mayor","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"October 4, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Reidsville's election is Tuesday, October 6th, so it's time for the first endorsement of this election cycle. We visit Reidsville, NC quite often and feel that it's a growing city with a great attitude. While there is a lot of work to be done in certain areas of the city,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Endorsements&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Endorsements","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/politicscentral\/endorsements\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5296,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/12\/live-photo-recap-reidsville-cruise-in-911\/","url_meta":{"origin":5500,"position":1},"title":"LIVE! Photo Recap \u2013 Reidsville Cruise-In (9\/11)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"September 12, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Let's recap our LIVE! coverage from the last Reidsville Cruise-In of the season. Photo captions are up so you know what's going on. It's not all muscle cars at the Cruise-In. Here's a Rolls-Royce. 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When we first met Ira Tilley, I saw a man who had just started his own small business and was already on the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Endorsements&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Endorsements","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/politicscentral\/endorsements\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4944,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/06\/reidsville-cruise-in-coming-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":5500,"position":4},"title":"Reidsville Cruise-In coming up!","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"August 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Friday, August 14th is the date for the next Cruise-In! From the Reidsville Downtown Corporation... Who doesn\u2019t love those antique cars? No one can resist the smooth lines, the beautiful paint, and the interesting angles of the cars of yesterday. 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