ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Time now for your letters and a correction. On Monday, we brought you the story of The LouseBuster, a hot air treatment that kills head lice. You can find it at salons with names like Nittless Noggins, Pikki Nikki and the Hair Whisperers, but not at Hair-Fairies, as we reported. Our apologies for that one.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Well, now on to my conversation with Carolyn Hamre. She won a seat on the City Council of Portage, Wisconsin. And she did it with just two votes, hers and her husband's.</s>CAROLYN HAMRE: There were 11 people. They had received one vote. And so, I won by a landslide by getting two.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Well, it turns out Ms. Hamre is not the only two-vote winner in this great democracy. Melanie Renzulli lives here in Washington, D.C. and she writes this: Voting in my very first election, at the age of 18 in Washington, D.C., I wrote in my name for a seat on the Advisory Neighborhood Commission for my district. When I returned to my dorm, I told a friend about this and he also wrote in my name. Within a few days after the election, I learned that I had won election to the commission with only two votes.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Please, keep your letters coming, just go to NPR.org and click on Contact Us.
Robert Siegel reads letters from listeners about a woman who won a city council seat with only two votes.