Voting Station

Montgomery, Alabama

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Location

The Resume

    (December 3, 1819- )
    Formed by the merger of the towns of East Alabama and New Philadelphia
    Seat of Montgomery County
    Capital of Alabama
    Population: 200,127 (2005 Census estimate)

Why Montgomery, Alabama might be annoying:

    The city is named after General Richmond Montgomery, while the county is named after Major Lemuel Montgomery.
    General Richard Montgomery has no connection to the state of Alabama.
    It was the fifth city to serve as Alabama's capital.
    It preceded Richmond, Virginia, as the first capital of the Confederacy (1861).
    Rosa Parks was arrested here for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man (December 1, 1955).
    Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested on loitering charges here and manhandled by the police (1958).
    Judge Roy Moore defied a court order by placing a 5,000-pound monument of the Ten Commandments in the state Supreme Court building (2001).

Why Montgomery, Alabama might not be annoying:

    It came through the Civil War undamaged physically.
    Martin Luther King, Jr. rose to prominence here by leading a bus boycott after Rosa Parks' arrest.
    Country music legend Hank Williams is buried here.
    It is home to the seventh largest Shakespeare festival in the world, attracting 300,000 visitors annually.

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 9 Votes: 77.78% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 38 Votes: 13.16% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 26 Votes: 73.08% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 15 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 52 Votes: 51.92% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 13 Votes: 69.23% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 15 Votes: 46.67% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 22 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 31 Votes: 48.39% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 52 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 131 Votes: 62.60% Annoying