Third-Time Voter: Elmhurst Municpal Elections 2011

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First....Dannee Polomsky won!  Yahoo!  Congrats to Dannee and her family!

Now...on to the voter post: 
The Babe is getting very experienced at voting!  This was her third time at our polling place in Elmhurst.  Here she was at just a little older than one month old in February of 2010 and here she is in November of last year at 11 months old. 

She's not likely going to remember any of these voting experiences, but it certainly brings a new perspective to voting for me:  the candidates we're electing today are going to shape the Elmhurst of tomorrow that the Babe is going to grow up in.

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