At the Baltmore Sun: This exercise cost city taxpayers about $1.5 million, or more than $33 per voter.
The votes are in, and the results are clear: Baltimore’s general election was a nearly complete waste of time, money and effort.
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake got about 84 percent of the measly 45,000 votes that were cast. Among the City Council races, only one was close. In most of the rest, the winners of the Democratic primary ran up margins that would make dictators holding sham elections envious. One incumbent, Sharon Green Middleton, got 98 percent of the vote.