LIVINGSTON COUNTY – Pistol permit applications are on a decline following a spike leading up to 2016's presidential election. County Clerk Mary Strickland reported to the Public Services Committee Thursday that from August 1, 2016 to November 15, 2016, pistol permit applications grew by 72 percent. "The interesting thing with this is we were going very strong up until the election," said Strickland to Public Services. "Everybody was in here … [Read more...]
Navigating my First Vote on Election Day, Through the Wrong Door
“Are you trying to get in?” “Yeah, but I’ll just go around. It looks like they want people to enter from the other side.” No need, she said. “I have my keys.” Yes, I entered my polling location through a door I wasn’t supposed to use. The wrong door. A janitor in the SUNY Geneseo campus’s Kuhl gym, my polling location for yesterday's election, the first presidential election I have ever voted in -- didn’t want me to have to go around to … [Read more...]