Valdosta Daily Times--Local News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Published November 06, 2009 11:56 pm - Votes certified; runoff set for Dec. 1By Dean Poling VALDOSTA — Friday’s certified election numbers confirmed the Election Day outcomes for Valdosta and Lowndes County races.The races for Valdosta City Council District 2 and the Valdosta Board of Education Superward East District 7 will both continue in a run-off election during the next few...
Capitol Hill Seattle (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
McGinn's lead has dropped from 910 to 462 (less than the # of write-in ballots counted). Your vote really is going to count this time. King County lets you follow the path of your ballot through the system, which you might care to do. While you're there you can check the number of votes still to be counted (King County 129,000 on 11/4). Advertisement Advertise Here
Peter Levine (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
CIRCLE is the only source for actual youth turnout estimates from yesterday's elections. Nineteen percent of eligible under-30 voters turned out in New Jersey, 17% in Virginia, and 12% in New York City. The only previous Virginia and New Jersey...
Unreality TV (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Danyl Johnson reportedly received the most public votes on this week’s X Factor, despite a hideously bad performance. The Sun reports that the 26 year old teacher received the highest number of votes with John and Edward Grimes coming in at second place. Olly Murs is said to have came third, Lucie Jones fourth. Jamie Archer [...]
Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The final tally on the House resolution condemning the report by Judge Richard Goldstone alleging war crimes by Israeli forces in Gaza is a lopsided 344 to 36 -- as it should be. Normally nothing much would be made of these numbers, but this vote, coming so quickly on the heels of J Street's inaugural conference, was seen as something of a test for the group, which is about the only Jewish...
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
I would like any one of those jokers calling for proportional representation (PR) to tell me exactly what it is they want. This PR talk was voiced by the ONR when they won a considerable number of votes in the 1981 general elections, but no seats.
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | yesterday
There are many sites that show trending links across the web including TweetMeme, Topsy, and Bit.ly. Recently launched splurb is now in the mix with its site that shows the most popular links that are trending on social media sites. splurb currently indexes Digg, Reddit, Mixx, Propeller, TweetMeme, Yahoo Buzz and Fark. Splurb tallies the number of votes from the various sites and number...
The Sixth Ward (Free subscription) | yesterday
There are probably going to be a lot of happy people in the suburbs since the law that reduces the number of votes on a county board veto override has finally been signed into law : Gov. Quinn signed into law Saturday a measure that slices away some of Cook County Board President Todd Stroger's authority and sets the stage for county commissioners to slash a controversial sales tax increase...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Just because certain Alberta PC delegates planning to reject their leader this weekend are paranoid, is no guarantee certain people in the party aren’t out to get them. And as soon as Tories began trickling into Red Deer’s Capri Convention Centre Friday, the suspicion intensified when delegates noticed that the secret ballots they were issued upon registration were all numbered....
Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Assembly constituency and their party leaders may spend a nerve-wracking time speculating on the number of votes polled in their favour. For the people, however, the overwhelming sense of relief over the peaceful conduct of the poll is in itself something to celebrate. By the standards of the past elections in the district, this byelection should have been anything but peaceful. There...
Big Lizards (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today, the House of Representatives passed the aptly named SqueakerCare bill ... "aptly named" for two reasons: It was introduced, and the favorable vote extorted, by Squeaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Haight-Ashbury, 100%); It squeaked by with 220 Ayes to 215 Nays... 218 being the bare minimum needed for passage. The bill stalled out until Pelosi was forced to allow a vote...
The Muqata (Free subscription) | yesterday
... and condemns the Goldstone report for the lopsided bias that it is. Yet the story is behind the numbers -- those that voted against the bill (thereby not unequivocally rejecting the Goldstone report), those that were present, but lacking a moral backbone to vote either way (you have to wonder what they're doing in congress in the first place), and those not present all. Democrats:...
Blog For Arizona (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The final numbers are now in for the City of Tucson election. As of 20:49:10 on November 6, 2009. with 100% of precincts reporting, here are the unofficial results: City Council Ward 3 Karin Uhlich (D) 33,760...
Slog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Reacting to the news that his lead in the mayor's race has grown both by number of votes and percentage of the vote, Mike McGinn says, “We were hopeful that the late ballots would trend our way like they did in the primary." McGinn believes that “the demographics of late voters were probably younger and more supportive of our campaign.” Indeed,...
JerseySmarts.com (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Believe it or not, there are still ballots left to be counted from last night’s Gubernatorial election. Specifically, there are a number of vote by mail ballots that have not yet been accounted for in a number of areas throughout the state. For example, I am a voter in Mount Arlington in Morris [...]
