{"id":9328,"date":"2015-09-21T08:05:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T15:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/no-votes-cast-in-small-town-iowa-school-board-race\/"},"modified":"2015-09-21T08:05:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T15:05:25","slug":"no-votes-cast-in-small-town-iowa-school-board-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/no-votes-cast-in-small-town-iowa-school-board-race\/","title":{"rendered":"No votes cast in small-town Iowa school board race"},"content":{"rendered":"

MCINTIRE, Iowa \u2014<\/strong> An Iowa farmer who was running unopposed for his local school board failed to earn any votes \u2014 not even his own \u2014 but he\u2019ll probably still get the job.<\/p>\n

Randy Richardson, 42, didn\u2019t find time to vote for himself between his full-time maintenance job at a bean processing plant in Riceville and his chores on his farm near McIntire, The Des Moines Register reported.<\/p>\n

Richardson was recruited to run by school staff, and though he said he\u2019s \u201crun paper thin the way it is,\u201d he agreed because he has two kids in the district.<\/p>\n

Neighbor Jessie Miller said there wasn\u2019t any key issue to drive her to vote in the school board race.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would\u2019ve voted for him!\u201d she said. \u201cHe\u2019s an awesome guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Riceville is a farming community of around 500 residents near the Minnesota border. The school board district Richardson was running for is also home to a number of Amish and Mennonite farmers who typically don\u2019t vote.<\/p>\n

There are only 122 registered voters who could have voted for Richardson. Across the entire school district, only 36 people voted in the Sept. 8 election.<\/p>\n

School board president Karl Fox, who also farms, said the timing of last week\u2019s vote was unfortunate because it\u2019s a busy time of year for fieldwork.<\/p>\n

Fox said farmers have a hard time sacrificing a day of nice weather at this time of year, and many people in the area have to drive 50 miles or more to get to work each day.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to get the general public to remember when to vote for president,\u201d Fox said.<\/p>\n

But Richardson will likely still get the job on the Riceville School Board because the board probably will appoint him to fill the seat he was running for, Fox said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MCINTIRE, Iowa \u2014 An Iowa farmer who was running unopposed for his local school board failed to earn any votes \u2014 not even his own \u2014 but he\u2019ll probably still get the job. Randy Richardson, 42, didn\u2019t find time to vote for himself between his full-time maintenance job at a bean processing plant in Riceville […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[65],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-9328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-nation-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9328"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}