Well we now have just passed the Nov. Election here in Quincy and unlike  many third world countries ( and second world countries too for that matter) we had no visible public violence that I saw other than the odd "sign ripping & tearing down" of scruffy young hooligans.
 What a delight! It is too bad tho that the weather seemed to keep turnout so low. I was holding my sign for Jimmy Liang all day in the rain - I almost felt I might grow roots outside Atlantic Middle School, and later The Knights of Columbus, as I was waving my sign for all to see.
  The election this year was really the most fun and hard work of any election I have personally experienced. My Candidates grass roots organization did a fabulous job going up against the political  machine of that Mayor Failing (Ooops!) put at the disposal of Brian ( our venerable opponent). Even tho Jimmy Liang lost this election in his first race against Brian ...