We’re now 13 hours into our citizens’ ballot. Most of us have had only a few hours of sleep, we’ve taken days off from work, some have been sleeping in the office. I’ve been in the office and on the phone throughout the weekend, until midnight last night, I spent most of the day in the office today. Today I manned phones in between troubleshooting network problems. We have 6 phones and the volunteers can’t keep the phones on the hook. I will be hearing ringing in my sleep.

We’ve been all over the news, our leaders have been photographed voting next to the candidates.

hundreds of volunteers manned 50+ polls, 6 phones, collected many, many votes: I’d completely unscientifically guess many many thousands.

The official polls are closing as I type. Our first ballot box has arrived in the office. We’ll be collecting votes online and phone until 10pm.

We won’t be counting any ballots tonight but we’re going to weight the boxes as they arrive to speculate wildly among ourselves how many votes they contain.

You still have a chance to vote on question #1. Go to phillysballotbox.org or call 215-925-6380.

History is being made today.