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In Anamosa, Iowa, Danny Young won a City Council seat in 2005 with two write-in votes: one from his wife and the other from his neighbor. Young’s district, Ward 2, was reported to consist of 1,400 people, a comparable figure to other wards. However, because the U.S. Census Bureau counts incarcerated people as part of the district where they’re imprisoned instead of the district in which they lived prior to incarceration, Ward 2’s population was
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