It’s election day over at Capitol Hill Seattle—it’s always election day over at CHS—and today the cruel bastard in charge of CHS has pitted Slog against an old and dear friend: Victrola. Victrola a favored hangout for Stranger staffers (it was also the subject of a lengthy feature by Sean Nelson), and the coffee shop where I’m likeliest to write “Savage Love” on any given week.

But this election forces us to set aside our personal feelings for Victrola and campaign in earnest. The people deserve a spirited debate and and we can’t allow our affections for Victrola to deprive voters of this accountability moment. Will Victrola move on to the final round? Or Slog? The power is in your hands.

Later in the day we will be revealing the results of our opposition research—just how dirty is that spatula with the bathroom key attached to it?—but right now all that matters is this: Victrola is kicking Slog’s ass. With 18 votes counted, Victrola has 61% and Slog just 39%. We’re not concerned at this stage. Early polling results tends to favor coffee shops, as their customers get out of bed early. Slog readers tend to get out of bed later in the day (to say nothing of Slog writers), so we expect to close the gap—but we can only do that with your help.

CHS says they’re keeping the polls open for the next four days—but CHS has lied to us before. In the last round of voting CHS said the polls would be open for 48 hours and then a “technical error” forced them to close the polls after just 24 hours. This election is being entirely conducted with computer technology, so there is no paper trail much less a way to independently verify CHS’ claims about “computer errors.” So we encourage you to vote NOW. When it comes to polling times, CHS has no credibility. click here and go VOTE NOW!

With your help we can win this thing. You have the power! Vote Slog!