I just got back in town yesterday evening, picked up my newspaper and cringed when I saw that there will be three races in runoff. Why you may ask? It was evident when I walked in the house and looked at my answering machine to see that there were 12 messages waiting for me since I had left town on Tuesday after voting. Every one of the messages received were from automated calls requesting me to vote for their husband, wife, friend, brother, co-worker, etc.