Kage Mann: I was looking at the election numbers and did you know that the direction of Huetter was made by only FOUR voters. Four out of only 40 registered in the town. Talk about voter apathy.

Baseball has the "Mendosa Line," named after former Seattle Mariners player Mario Mendoza, whose lifetime MLB batting average over 9 seasons hovered a little above .200. No one wants to be hitting "below the Mendoza Line," which means you're batting less than .200, which is border-line dreadful. Several North Idaho communities fell well below 20% (.200) re: voter turnout last Tuesday, including Huetter's dreadful 10% in which 4 of 40 registered voters bothered to cast ballots to decide who would run the small town for the next two to four years. So let's see who fell below the "Huetter line." Spirit Lake did at 9.8% turnout. Athol did at 9.4% turnout. And Hauser did at 6.9% turnout. Voters in those towns could say there were no contested races to drive them to the polls. Which makes Post Falls, with a 14.8% turnout look even worse. Post Falls had three contested races. If Post Falls was the exact same size as Huetter, a 14.8% turnout would mean that 6 people voted. F'shame.

Question: Would you rather see people vote for the sake of voting and boosting turnout? Or see smaller turnouts with only informed voters casting ballots?