G. Frink's

We few North Carolinia voters made Mary Fant Donnan the Democratic labor commissioner nominee yesterday.

Expecting turnout would be low, I was still unaccountably sad to find just one other voter at my Wylie School (Raleigh, N.C.) voting place Tuesday morning.

Just 44 voters had preceded me to the digital ballot box in an area where I could count almost half that many Mary Fant Donnan signs in well-manicured front yards, and had yet to see a John Brooks sign.

      Lonely Wylie School (Raleigh, N.C.) voting place, Tuesday.

Photo by George Frink | (c)

It was the same everywhere.

Less than two percent of the registered voters went to the polls in North Carolina yesterday.

Donnan won by a landslide 68% to her opponent John Brooks' 32%.

Donnan will face incumbent Republican Cherie Berry in November, and I went to Fletcher Park where the flowers are blooming and more people walked with me in the warm sun than had gathered with me at the polling place four blocks away. Mothers with babies in strollers smiled at me as I made pictures of the flowers.

      Fletcher Park flower.

Photo by George Frink | (c)