Today is election day for Seattle residents. On the ballot is City of Seattle Advisory Measure No. 1 and 2. Residents who haven't voted by mail need to shuffle to the nearest post office, drop-off location or at least leave their ballots in an unattended voting machine to ensure that they will be counted by King County Elections.

If you don't want to vote, that's all right too. Because contrary to what you learned in school some elections just don't matter. Especially non-binding advisory measures called for by a governor who can't make a political stand and sees no problem with wasting a million taxpayers' dollars on what is a jumped-up, and inaccurate, public opinion poll.

With that said, what are your predictions for the outcome of this hysteric vote? A Sound Politics No-Prize will be awarded to the best, humorous and/or most accurate prognostication about the results, tunnel, Viaduct, Gov. Gregoire, Mayor Nickels, earthquakes and the gullible individuals who actually donated thousands of dollars in campaign contributions trying to influence this "special" election.

Here are some of mine...

Results:

Both the Tunnel Hybrid and Elevated Structure Alternative will fail to achieve fifty percent of the popular vote.
"No and Hell No" ballots will trail both alternatives.
About three percent of the ballots will be marked "Yes" and "Yes".
The number of blank ballots and votes not mailed in will outnumber all of the above.

Assessment:

Proponents of Greg Nickels' multi-billion dollar tunnel-surface alternative will view today's election results as a victory and will continue their campaign for the decade to come.
Proponents of the alternative multi-billion dollar viaduct rebuild will view today's election results as a victory and will continue their campaign for the decade to come.
Proponents of a surface street option will view today's election results as a sign that Seattle residents don't want either mega-project and will continue their campaign for a surface street option for the decade to come.
Proponents of a viaduct retrofit will view today's election result as a sign that Seattle voters don't know what the hell they want and we should make do with the old Viaduct until someone comes up with a better plan and will continue their campaign until the Seattle Fault shifts.
The proponent of "Tunnel-Yes and Viaduct-Yes 2" will graciously concede defeat and admit that two over-priced mega-projects are not better than one.