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The city of Philadelphia has released a list of problematic mail-in ballots.

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Thousands of Philadelphians must correct their mail-in ballots

The good news: Many Philadelphians voted early, which is key to our plan to save the state, the country and democracy itself. (Again.)

The bad news: a number of us voted inappropriately.

According to Philadelphia city commissioners, many of us sent absentee or mail-in ballots with “Various issues that could prevent their counting.” These issues include ballots sent without a secrecy envelope, signature, date, etc.

There are more than 3,300 names on their list of voters whose ballots have problems at the last update. But don’t panic yet. Many of those ballots – 1,297, well CTRL+F – are listed as “undeliverable,” meaning returned by the U.S. Postal Service.

The list is public, which means anyone can look at it and make fun of you for not signing your ballot. Hello former Mayor John Street! You ohI’m someone named exactly like you has a ballot marked “undeliverable!” » I guess that means you moved! Or I guess that means he moved. Sorry for yelling.

If your name appears on the list, there is still time to rectify the situation, according to a spokesperson for the municipal police station: “If you still have your ballot paper and your return envelope, the one containing the voter’s declaration , you can give them to the polls to your election judge, sign an affirmation and vote on the machines as usual. If you do not have your ballot and return envelope, you can vote by provisional ballot at your polling station.

If you’re not on the list but you’re worried you didn’t do it right because, I don’t know, it’s just the most important election in the history of the world, keep checking. They add and remove names as issues are raised/resolved.

Take the cakes

This vanilla layer cake from McMillan’s was 12 inches in diameter and weighed more than Moo Deng.

Sad news from South Jersey, because McMillan’s Bakery in Haddon Township has announced it will close its operations sometime after the holiday season.. Today, the owner of the building is selling the place. My mother thinks they should move to Collingswood, two kilometers from Haddon Avenue.

Founded in 1939 by George and Evelyn McMillan, the family-owned shop with a small parking lot was known for making heavy-as-hell donuts, cookies and cakes for area families.

My own family bought a dense and delicious cake from McMillan’s last weekend and brought it to the pub to celebrate several birthdays at once. See photo above. Always take a photo of the cake.

South Jersey still has many great bakeries, of course, but it sucks to lose a big part of my childhood. Question: When you walk through your old neighborhood drenched in nostalgia, what song plays in your head? For me, it’s either “That was my playground” or “Didn’t we almost have everything?” »

RIP Teri Garr, Philadelphia radio listener

Goodbye to the great Teri Garr. Beloved actress – Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Tootsie, Young Frankenstein and so on – had no real connection to the Philadelphia area, as far as I could tell, except for all those upbeat and somewhat confusing commercials it did for the easy listening station B101.

According to an article from Daily NewsOn May 25, 2000 (with Ronnie Polaneczky!), Garr came to town to shoot the commercials near the Logan Square fountain with a group of lucky local listeners. I always imagined the Oscar-nominated actress driving into town from Los Angeles or New York, stopping in a Forman Mills parking lot and enjoying “Invisible Touch” in her car.

By the numbers

$18 million: The money raised by this 20 year old man from South Jersey for his Democratic super PAC, whose goal is to get Gen Z to the polls.

0 How many goals the Flyers gave up yesterday. Mark my words: the Flyers are a hockey team.

79 degrees: This is the highest today.

82 degrees: It’s tomorrow’s summit. In October. On Halloween. Disappointment. There will be dripping face paint, wilting cardboard, tantrums in the street, Kit Kats and gummy worms melting together, mass hysteria.

Local talent

Way late to the party on this, but I was delighted to catch up with Philadelphia native Frances Quinlan, who makes music under her own name as well as with the band Hop Along. the soundtrack to the magnificent and disturbing queer/existential horror film I saw the TV glow (now showing on (HBO) Max). Quinlan’s lovely, sad and exciting “Another Season” stands out, even alongside tracks by Jay Som, Phoebe Bridgers, King Woman, Caroline Polachek and more. Meanwhile, another Philadelphian, Alex G., scored.