Preliminary election returns for the special U.S. House election in California’s 10th district are:
Democrat John Garamendi 55.54%; Republican Dave Harmer 39.77%; Green Jeremy Cloward 1.99%; Peace & Freedom Mary McIlroy 1.48%; American Independent Party Jerry Denham 1.23%.
When this district last voted, in November 2008, the results had been: Democratic 65.20%; Republican 31.10%; Peace & Freedom 3.70%.
Updated: 12:05am EST (Wednesday)
With 87% of precincts reporting, CNN just reported that the Democrat, Bill Owens, is leading with 49% over Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman’s 45%. Republican Dede Scozzafava, who withdrew from the race a few days ago, is getting 6%.
There are over 11,000 absentee ballots that will not be counted tonight.
Updated: 11:45pm EST
The ballot question to adopt Instant Runoff Voting in St. Paul, MN was approved:
Total Reporting: 100%
YES 17,083 52.45%
NO 15,486 47.55%
The ballot measure to adopt proportional representation in Lowell, MA is going down.
Things went smoothly in Minneapolis’ first Instant Runoff Voting election.
Attorneys for the state of Tennessee will be taking the depositions of leaders of the Tennessee Constitution, Green, and Libertarian Parties on November 13. If necessary, they will extend into November 14, even though that is a Saturday. The depositions are part of the normal process for constitutional lawsuits. The case concerns Tennessee’s ballot access law for new and previously unqualified parties.
CBS News has this November 3 story about the controversy as to whether the names and addresses of people who sign initiative and referendum petitions should be public, or private. The feature also gives readers a chance to vote their preference. So far, the readers who favor releasing the names and addresses are outpolling the readers who don’t, by a margin of almost 3:2.
