With 90% of the vote reported, Maine Question Five has won, 52% to 48%. This is the initiative to use instant runoff voting in future elections for congress and state office elections. Here is a link to Maine election returns.
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Miano Elementary School in Los Banos, California, held a mock election, with these results: Hillary Clinton 505; Gloria La Riva of the Party for Socialism and Liberation 60; Gary Johnson 35; Donald Trump 24; Jill Stein 17. Also these write-ins: Bernie Sanders 4, and one each for President Obama, Jesus, and a unicorn. See this story.
Three New Hampshire towns with tiny populations have already voted. Dixville Notch, Hart’s Location, and Millsfield open the polls at 12:01 a.m. on election day and close them shortly afterwards. The results:
Dixville Notch: 4 Clinton, 2 Trump, 1 Johnson, 1 write-in for Mitt Romney.
Hart’s Location: 17 Trump, 14 Clinton, 3 Johnson, 2 write-ins for Bernie Sanders
Millsfield: 16 Trump, 4 Clinton, 1 write-in for Bernie Sanders
Politico has its web page all positioned to include election returns for president from every state. See the link, which of course doesn’t yet show any vote totals. Every candidate who is on the ballot in any particular state is listed. Thanks to Gregory Koch for the link.
Politico has this lengthy article about the California U.S. Senate race, and the future of the top-two system.
The article quotes Abel Maldonado, one of the fathers of the system in California. He seems to now accept the idea that Republicans will never have a chance at winning a statewide race in California, and celebrates the fact that Republicans are permitted to choose between two Democrats. Yet Republicans won gubernatorial races in California in 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 2003, and 2006, before there was a top-two primary.