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The chatter has been rampant for months, and today's the big day. Not only will Tom Menino and Michael Flaherty face off in the race for mayor of Boston, but there are many other municipal elections going on around the state. Find out if your town is having an election today and, if so, where you can go to vote. If you're in Boston proper, you can locate your polling place here. Happy voting! Check Blue Mass Group, Red Mass Group, and Universal Hub for voter comments (or leave your own here).

The Phoenix has raised a bit of a flap over a Globe poll that suggests overall satisfaction with Mayor Tom Menino's performance and a greater affection for Menino than for mayoral election rival Michael Flaherty. 52% are likely to vote for Menino; 32% for Flaherty.

Seems the ol' second computer trick didn't quite do it. Pressed by the Secretary of State to turn over email records, Mayor Tom Menino's chief of policy, Michael Kineavy, is taking a leave until the mystery of the "missing" (er, deleted) emails can be solved. Resignations always look suspiciously like admissions of guilt, but Menino claims his staffers are being "forthright" and cooperative on the issue; we can only assume that by "forthright" he means "bumbling and incompetent." At this point, though, the issue is not about cooperation--it's about whether Kineavy broke the law. This may be a lame comparison, but you can still get a ticket for speeding even if you didn't realize how fast you were going.

The Globe and Herald are currently calling a Menino-Flaherty runoff for mayor. Menino has 49% and Flaherty 25% with 179 of 254 precincts reporting in the mayoral preliminary, according to the Globe.

Trendsmap is an exciting new Twitter mashup that blends Twitter, Google Maps, and What the Trend to create a real life map that shows what's going on near you—or at least what people are tweeting about near you. Not surprisingly, election talk dominated Twitter in the area today, with #bostonelection, @mayortommenino, and @samyoonformayor all near the top. Trendsmap conveniently launches an internal popup to show recent tweets on popular topics. It's an interesting service that might help point you to local trends, assuming you generally live under a rock, in which case you are probably not on Twitter anyway.