: Dear Greensboro: If could put you over my knee, I would

Dear Greensboro voters:

You had important decisions to make in a pivotal primary on Oct. 7. And yet most of you chose to stay home.

Faced with an election that will have lasting implications at a critical moment in the city’s history, you responded with a yawn and a shrug.

Barely more than 10% of the city’s registered voters bothered to turn out. That means (let’s see, hold on while I get a calculator) nearly 90% of you didn’t.

More specifically, that’s 22,251 out of 210,900 eligible voters (10.55%). In other words, an embarrassment and a disappointment.

You had a deep, qualified field of 29 mayoral and City Council candidates from which to pick and you would not make the effort.

You could have voted early. But you didn’t.

You could have voted on Election Day, Oct. 7. But you didn’t