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Old 01-22-2019, 08:51 PM   #695
JonInMiddleGA
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Originally Posted by dawgfan View Post
Someone had to be first. I'm just glad we've broken through that silly thing about nobody being worthy of a unanimous first ballot vote.

Though yes & no on that. At least one voter did not submit a ballot this year because he wasn't going to list Rivera but didn't want to be the sole cause of preventing unanimous, so he simply didn't vote at all (and unanimous applies only to ballots cast, not all eligible ballots)
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