2019 US Miscellaneous Election Thread

[San Lumen]

Thats odd. We dont have that rule here. Last election we did have a fair number of people vote on it after a machine broke down in one of the precincts in my polling location.

Had to tell literally everyone who came in that they could use it if they wanted. I guess previous elections had seen the judges stuff it off into a corner because it was too much trouble to work with.

I don believe we are required to tell people it is an option. I might ask that at the next training.

The only time i've ever seen it used is when a machine breaks down and the BOE usually tells that table to direct their voters to the BMD to cast their ballot.

[Conserative Morality]

I don believe we are required to tell people it is an option. I might ask that at the next training.

They literally had a sticker on the check-in judges' machines here reminding them what to say to every voter and exactly how to say it. Sometimes, I wake up saying it in my sleep: "If needed, there is an accessible way to read or mark your ballot."

[San Lumen]

Thats odd. We dont have that rule here. Last election we did have a number of people vote on it after a machine broke down in one of the precincts in my polling location after they got approval from the BOE.

machine broke...

yea ok. tammany hall working like clockwork i see.

Machines break down sometimes. There is no vote tampering going on. Optical scan machines are not capable of that.

In the case last year at my ED. It was a paper jam. It happens. Nothing nefarious. An employee of the BOE came with a police officer to fix the machine. In the meantime voters went to the BMD to cast their ballot. That is Tammy Hall like how?

[Loben]

machine broke...

yea ok. tammany hall working like clockwork i see.

Machines break down sometimes. There is no vote tampering going on. Optical scan machines are not capable of that.

In the case last year at my ED. It was a paper jam. It happens. Nothing nefarious. An employee of the BOE came with a police officer to fix the machine. In the meantime voters went to the BMD to cast their ballot. That is Tammy Hall like how?

awful defensive for a democratic agent in new york after i mentioned tammany hall which has been defunct for....50 or so years.

[Shrillland]

machine broke...

yea ok. tammany hall working like clockwork i see.

Machines break down sometimes. There is no vote tampering going on. Optical scan machines are not capable of that.

In the case last year at my ED. It was a paper jam. It happens. Nothing nefarious. An employee of the BOE came with a police officer to fix the machine. In the meantime voters went to the BMD to cast their ballot. That is Tammy Hall like how?

I think Loben was just being facetious.

In other news, Mark Harris has decided not to run for the Charlotte-Fayetteville byelection, which will at least improve the chances of a fair vote, and has endorsed Union County Commissioner Stony Rushing: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/26/mark-harris-says-he-wont-run-in-north-carolina-election-do-over-1188036

[San Lumen]

Machines break down sometimes. There is no vote tampering going on. Optical scan machines are not capable of that.

In the case last year at my ED. It was a paper jam. It happens. Nothing nefarious. An employee of the BOE came with a police officer to fix the machine. In the meantime voters went to the BMD to cast their ballot. That is Tammy Hall like how?

awful defensive for a democratic agent in new york after i mentioned tammany hall which has been defunct for....50 or so years.

I am well aware of the history of New York. Why did you bring up Tammy Hall when i mentioned a machine breaking down?

[Loben]

awful defensive for a democratic agent in new york after i mentioned tammany hall which has been defunct for....50 or so years.

I am well aware of the history of New York. Why did you bring up Tammy Hall when i mentioned a machine breaking down?

well known democratic pressure group which i am sure did more then burn ballots during critical elections.

[San Lumen]

I am well aware of the history of New York. Why did you bring up Tammy Hall when i mentioned a machine breaking down?

well known democratic pressure group which i am sure did more then burn ballots during critical elections.

I knew that. It’s well known what they did.

[Shrillland]

Well, I was definitely wrong about tonight...I think we can safely say that Lori Lightfoot(former Chicago Police Board president) will win 1st and go to the April 2 runoff. If elected, she would be the first LGBT mayor of Chicago. It's still a close run between Daley and Preckwinkle for Spot 2.

[San Lumen]

In a stunning result democrats lost what should have been a safe Connecticut senate district in New Britain. The republican candidate Gennaro Bizzarro. Yes that is their real name. I’m
At a loss to explain this though I heard the New Britain part of the district didn’t turn out and the small republican part did. It’s really sad when people can’t get off their butts to vote

A state house district in east haven flipped as well. It appears Democrats won the three Hartford area seats

And in New York City, City Council member Jumaane Williams has been elected Public Advocate. There will be a special primary in June for the special election in November

[Shrillland]

And at nearly 77% of the vote in, I'm calling it: No Overall Majority, Lort Lightfoot will go against Toni Preckwinkle in April 2 runoff.

In Connecticut tonight, Republicans took one House seat(99-East Haven) and one Senate seat(6-New Britain) from the Democrats. Two other House seats and one Senate seat remained in Democratic hands.

Next week, we have state general legislative votes in Kentucky(Senate 31-Pikeville), Rhode Island(House 68-Bristol Central), and Texas(House 145-Houston North Central[a Democratic hold]), and primaries in Minnesota(House 11B-Hinckley) and Tennessee(Senate 22-Clarksville).

[Shrillland]

In a stunning result democrats lost what should have been a safe Connecticut senate district in New Britain. The republican candidate Gennaro Bizzarro. Yes that is their real name. I’m
At a loss to explain this though I heard the New Britain part of the district didn’t turn out and the small republican part did. It’s really sad when people can’t get off their butts to vote

A state house district in east haven flipped as well. It appears Democrats won the three Hartford area seats

And in New York City, City Council member Jumaane Williams has been elected Public Advocate. There will be a special primary in June for the special election in November

It's a byelection for a state seat, a lot of people probably didn't know it was even happening today.

[San Lumen]

In a stunning result democrats lost what should have been a safe Connecticut senate district in New Britain. The republican candidate Gennaro Bizzarro. Yes that is their real name. I’m
At a loss to explain this though I heard the New Britain part of the district didn’t turn out and the small republican part did. It’s really sad when people can’t get off their butts to vote

A state house district in east haven flipped as well. It appears Democrats won the three Hartford area seats

And in New York City, City Council member Jumaane Williams has been elected Public Advocate. There will be a special primary in June for the special election in November

It's a byelection for a state seat, a lot of people probably didn't know it was even happening today.

True. Democrats held the three Hartford seats easily. And in the New London house seat the democrat won easily but the green got 25 percent with the republican getting only 14 percent and independents splitting the rest of the vote

[Cassadaigua]

In a stunning result democrats lost what should have been a safe Connecticut senate district in New Britain. The republican candidate Gennaro Bizzarro. Yes that is their real name. I’m

Bizzarro ran a good campaign, but let's not forget that there may have been significant Lamont backlash here, given his recent budget proposal.

[Shrillland]

It's a byelection for a state seat, a lot of people probably didn't know it was even happening today.

True. Democrats held the three Hartford seats easily. And in the New London house seat the democrat won easily but the green got 25 percent with the republican getting only 14 percent and independents splitting the rest of the vote

That's actually not that unusual for New England for third parties to actually have fighting chances of winning though. Hell, next week an Independent will likely win the Rhode Island seat, he's a Democrat now, but he's defecting from the party.

[San Lumen]

In a stunning result democrats lost what should have been a safe Connecticut senate district in New Britain. The republican candidate Gennaro Bizzarro. Yes that is their real name. I’m

Bizzarro ran a good campaign, but let's not forget that there may have been significant Lamont backlash here, given his recent budget proposal.

Yes that may have been a factor but the Democrats won the New London and Hartford seats easily so the New Britain result is very strange. It probably flips back in 2020. The election may have had something to to with Lamont going back on his pledge to have tolls on trucks only. New Britain is surrounded by three highways.

True. Democrats held the three Hartford seats easily. And in the New London house seat the democrat won easily but the green got 25 percent with the republican getting only 14 percent and independents splitting the rest of the vote

That's actually not that unusual for New England for third parties to actually have fighting chances of winning though. Hell, next week an Independent will likely win the Rhode Island seat, he's a Democrat now, but he's defecting from the party.

That makes sense. Vermont for example has a viable third party called the Progressive Party that holds several state legislative seats and the Lt. Governorship. And in a correction the Green candidate got 28 percent in the New London district.

the by election for the Kentucky Senate next tuesday is in a very rural part of the state bordering West Virginia. I fully expect Republicans to gain the seat.

Tampa will be holding its mayoral and city council elections. The frontrunner is former chief of police Jane Castor (no relation to congresswoman Kathy Castor) A candidate must win 50 percent of the vote or it goes to runoff and Castor is polling very close to it.

Burlington, Vermont will also be holding city council elections. No major drama as the city is so blue Republicans arent even bothering to field candidates. Its largely a battle between the Democrats and Progressive Party though some independents are running

Regarding Chicago i never would have expected a Prickwickle/Lightfoot runoff.

[Shrillland]

Neither was I. Lightfoot didn't even start ranking in the polls until last week, and even then she was supposed to come in second, but the progressive well off North Shore wards all voted for her tonight.

Anyway, the next ones are...difficult to say in Kentucky's case. They still elect Democrats on the local level in those rural areas, the guy who held the seat left after being elected a county judge-executive(head of the county fiscal court, which is another name for a county board).

[San Lumen]

Neither was I. Lightfoot didn't even start ranking in the polls until last week, and even then she was supposed to come in second, but the progressive well off North Shore wards all voted for her tonight.

Anyway, the next ones are...difficult to say in Kentucky's case. They still elect Democrats on the local level in those rural areas, the guy who held the seat left after being elected a county judge-executive(head of the county fiscal court, which is another name for a county board).

From what Ive heard about her she seems like she would be a fantastic mayor.

Im still trying to figure out how Bizzarro lose election in New Britain. Bonus points to anyone who knows what that is a reference too.

It was likely turnout and the issue of tolls. Lamont had initially pledged that there would be tolls on only trucks but reneged and said it would apply to both trucks and cars., New Britain and the town of Berlin are surrounded by three highways.

[Cassadaigua]

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It was likely turnout and the issue of tolls. Lamont had initially pledged that there would be tolls on only trucks but reneged and said it would apply to both trucks and cars., New Britain and the town of Berlin are surrounded by three highways.

Mayor Erin Stewart is generally liked in New Britain and throughout the Republican party, so I don't think it is a big surprise that Bizzarro won that seat, he ran a good campaign overall. Tolls are big issue in this area, so this had to be a huge factor in, I would imagine, bringing toll-haters to the polls while those would are indifferent towards the issue stayed home or didn't realize there was an election.

[San Lumen]

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It was likely turnout and the issue of tolls. Lamont had initially pledged that there would be tolls on only trucks but reneged and said it would apply to both trucks and cars., New Britain and the town of Berlin are surrounded by three highways.

Mayor Erin Stewart is generally liked in New Britain and throughout the Republican party, so I don't think it is a big surprise that Bizzarro won that seat, he ran a good campaign overall. Tolls are big issue in this area, so this had to be a huge factor in, I would imagine, bringing toll-haters to the polls while those would are indifferent towards the issue stayed home or didn't realize there was an election.

Turnout in new Britain was also dreadful. It was decent in the Hartford area.

[Shrillland]

A bit of news for the State College-Susquehanna(PA-12) byelection, the GOP met yesterday and chose their likely winner, State Rep. Fred Keller: https://whyy.org/articles/republicans-pick-pa-state-rep-as-nominee-to-fill-open-u-s-house-seat/

Meanwhile, NC-3(Jacksonville-Outer Banks) byelection has been scheduled, the primaries will be on April 30, primary runoffs on July 9, and the general on either July 9 or September 10 depending on whether or not a runoff is needed: https://ncdailystandard.com/2019/02/27/3rd-congressional-district-special-election-filing-begins-next-week/

[San Lumen]

I dont know how accurate this pollster is or how good the methodology is but it shows a good result for the Chicago Mayor election on April 2nd.

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000169 ... ff9bd90001

Former President of the Police Board Lori Lightfoot leads Cook County Commission President Toni Preckwickle 58 to 30.

That would be a huge blow to the machine if that was the result a month from now.

[Shrillland]

Dates have been set for the Charlotte-Fayetteville(NC-9) byelection: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/nc-officials-set-dates-for-9th-district-special-election/ar-BBUn6hX

May 14 for primaries, September 10 for any runoffs, and September 10 or November 5 for the general depending on if there are any runoffs.

[San Lumen]

Well the Democrats lost the by election for the Kentucky Senate but its not a surprise. it was in a very red part of the state that Trump won with 80 percent of he vote although the Democrat managed to get 47 percent of the vote.

In Rhode Island the Democrat won the by election for the SH-63 over two independents and a libertarian. The district is based around the town of Bristol a largely blue town.

In Tampa former Chief of Police Jane Castor got tantalizingly close to 50 percent in the mayor election which would avoid have avoided a runoff. Castor is likely the favorite against businessman David Straz in runoff April 23rd.

Next week are a bunch of by elections in multiple states for the state legislature

Mississippi will be holding three but i don't expect much drama

An election will be held in Texas in HD 125 which is based in San Antonio. The Democrat should be the heavy favorite

There will also be a by election in Maine HD 124 due to the incumbent's election as Attorney General. The district contains part of Bangor and the Democrat should be heavily favored here as well.

Pennsylvania will have two by elections in HD 114 (which contains suburbs of Scranton) and the other HD 190 is entirely within the city of Philadelphia and contains the Centennial Arboretum. The Scranton district should favor the Democrat and the other district is a near certainty to go to the Democrat

One more by election will be in Tennessee SD-32 which contains outer suburbs of Memphis. The Republican is likely favored here.

Plus Phoenix will be holding a special mayoral election due to the previous mayor's election to Congress.

[Thermodolia]

So two things.

First off the MARTA Transit referendum is going to take place on March 19th. It deals with Gwinnett county joining MARTA, which if they do will be the biggest transit expansion in Atlanta history in decades.

Second and this is tied with the elections last year. Brian Kemp is currently under investigation by the US House for possible election violations https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/us/p ... ssion.html