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Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for December 8, 2023
The Number of the Day columns published on Ballotpedia reflect the views of the author.
December 8, 2023: Twenty percent (20%) of Colorado’s school board elections were canceled this year. That’s because, in Colorado, school districts can cancel their elections if there aren’t enough candidates. That happened in 75 of Colorado’s 178 school districts.
In most cases, this means that people who filed to run automatically win election to the school board. In total, 198 of the state’s 978 school board members were elected by default. If nobody runs, it creates a vacancy that the board must fill before the end of the year, which happened in 24 cases this year.
Each weekday, Scott Rasmussen’s Number of the Day explores interesting and newsworthy topics at the intersection of culture, politics, and technology.
- December 7, 2023-82 years ago, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
- December 6, 2023-62% of voters agree that “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.’”
- December 5, 2023-69% of voters are concerned that terrorists allied with Hamas will try to enter the United States across the southern border and launch a significant attack within the U.S.
- December 4, 2023-48% of voters say that 2023 has been a good year
- December 1, 2023-110 years ago, the Buenos Aires Underground began operation
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