Junho Lee

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Junho Lee |J. David Goodman

The creation of the city of Starbase followed one of the nation's more unusual elections. No campaigning took place and there were no yard signs or other evidence of a consequential vote in the area. According to preliminary results, the measure passed by a whopping 212 to 6 - the kind of margin that had been expected but was very unlike most contests in a deeply polarized nation.