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Re:To fix L.A.'s traffic, we need tolls by HillaryBriss on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @06:38PM (#13816356)
i agree with much of what you're saying, but -- 1 voter for ~50k residents? huh?

there are about 4 million residents in LA. 1 voter per 50k residents amounts to 80 voters. i must be misunderstanding your comment...

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Re:To fix L.A.'s traffic, we need tolls by Balgair on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @06:57PM (#13816486)
You are right. I messed up here. The voter turn out in LA is typically ~10% of the population. Garcetti got ~6% of the population to vote for him in '13.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_mayoral_election,_...

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