<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/493f07ae-ae87-4ff4-a927-97623db9c2e9/D17D47AA-5045-4DD2-A729-61ECE01E9D5F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2007/11/nobody_wins_in.php" href="http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2007/11/nobody_wins_in.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newhavenindependent.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2007/11/nobody_wins_in.php">The numbers of voters staying home continued to climb in <A href="http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2007/11/greens_rejoice.php">this week's election</A>, as 77.7 percent of the city's registered voters chose not to cast votes for mayor. John DeStefano, meanwhile, saw his number of votes drop for the fourth straight time.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2007/11/nobody_wins_in.php">Mayor <A href="http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2007/11/mayor_sails_to.php">John DeStefano (pictured at his victory party) won</A> Tuesday's mayoral election with 8,681 votes, or 71.1 percent of votes cast.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2007/11/nobody_wins_in.php">That constituted only 15.8 percent of the city's 54,742 registered voters. And his total number of votes was considerably lower than in any of the previous four mayoral elections.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2007/11/nobody_wins_in.php">"At the risk of stating the obvious, the drop in municipal voter turnout in the general elections over the last 10 years is, in my opinion, a symptom of a one-party town.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D17D47AA-5045-4DD2-A729-61ECE01E9D5F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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