Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Updates on the 2012 federal and state elections will be posted here throughout the day. Connect with us on Twitter at #PatchElections.
Check back at your local Patch all day for live election updates. In the race for President of the United States, influential Rhode Island political insiders have weighed in regarding who has run the better "ground game" in Rhode Island leading up to the election during our latest Red Rhody/Blue Rhody political survey. According to our results, Democratic influencers felt Obama has run a better ground campaign by a wide margin while a majority of Republican influencers surveyed said the ground campaign up to this point has been even. In 2008, Rhode Island voted Democratic with 296,571 voters casting ballots for the Obama-Biden team. Republican John McCain and Sarah Palin earned 165,391 votes. According to the Rhode Island Secretary of …
Voters in Rhode Island on Tuesday cast their ballot for Barack Obama, giving him the state's 4 Electoral votes.
Barack Obama won Rhode Island’s 4 electoral votes on Tuesday, defeating Republican Mitt Romney. The Wall Street Journal along with the Associated Press has called the race in Rhode Island declaring Obama the winner. In the 2008 presidential election, the state voted for the Democratic candidate, and since the 1990s has voted for the overall winner of the presidential race 3 out of 5 times. Romney and Obama did not campaign aggressively in Rhode Island. The state has typically been a Democratic stronghold in recent presidential elections. The economy was a key issue for many voters in the state.
Most polling locations across North Kingstown are experiencing strong turnout today.
For more election updates, follow our coverage here. Voter turnout has been strong in North Kingstown this morning since polls opened at 7 a.m. At Davisville Middle School, about 50 people were waiting outside around 11 a.m. today waiting to get inside the building to vote. Once inside, another 30 (or more) people were waiting in line to cast their ballot. "I waited about 45 minutes before I voted," said Evan Charello. According to Bill Maccarone (a campaign worker for Steve Campo), "Quite a few people saw the line and turned around." Earlier this morning, one of the voting machines at the school went down, which caused further delays, said poll worker Richard August. Though voter turnout is always higher during a presidential election …
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One South Kingstown polling place received the wrong ballots.
For more election updates, follow our coverage here. Many voters in South Kingstown were turned away early this morning after their polling place received the wrong ballots. According to both WPRI and the Providence Journal, polls workers at West Kingston Elementary School in South Kingstown discovered they were given ballots intended for North Kingstown High School. The error was discovered around 7 a.m., right as polls opened. According to WPRI, South Kingstown Town Clerk Dale S. Holberton said that precinct numbers for the two locations caused the confusion. (NKHS' precinct number is 2307 while WKES' is 3207.) As of 8 a.m., the ballots were being switched. According to North Kingstown Town Clerk Jeannette Alyward, only a portion of …
Updates on the 2012 North Kingstown and Rhode Island elections throughout the day. Connect with us on Twitter at #PatchElections.
Check back here all day for live election updates. 9:45 p.m. All precincts are reported in, except for mail ballots. According to the town clerk, there are approximately 1,100 mail-in ballots that have yet to be counted. Please note the below results are not official results at this time. 9 p.m. Six of 11 precincts are now reported in North Kingstown, according to the Secretary of State's website. Check the results below as they come in. We'll be updating this as more precincts report. 1 p.m. North Kingstown is seeing strong voter turnout thus far. Expect lines at the polls. 9 a.m. South Kingstown accidentally received ballots intended for North Kingstown this morning. According to the town clerk in NK, this will not impact voting …
Rhode Island state law allows people who have not registered to vote to cast a ballot of the top office – in E.G., go to Swift.
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For all those super procrastinators out there who didn't register to vote by the deadline, you can still vote for president on Election Day. According to Rhode Island General Law 17-1-3, people who missed the voter registration dealine may vote for president/vice president only at their local Board of Canvassers on Election Day. In North Kingstown, you can vote for the president and vice president at Town Hall (80 Boston Neck Road) on Tuesday, November 6, during regular polling hours (7 a.m. to 8 p.m.). Town Hall is the only NK polling place set up for this. You will need to show an ID and complete a registration form. You will then be given a ballot for president/vice president only. This is also for people who have moved to NK from …
Patch will have a team of editors in our Patch communities covering Tuesday's election in real-time in our live blog.
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After more than a year of hype, hundreds of speeches and millions spent on campaign ads, the 2012 election is finally here — and Patch is covering it live in a real-time Election Day Blog. We will have more than a dozen editors throughout Rhode Island in our Patch communities on Tuesday, talking to voters, election officials and others — and providing updates and results in the blog from 2 p.m. until the final races are called. We also want to hear from you, so make sure your post a comment in the blog. Tell us how you voted for and why; share your experiences at the polls; or just weigh in on the big election of 2012. The Election Day blog will launch around 2 p.m. Tuesday...but you can sign up now to receive an email alert once the blog …
Rhode Island's Democratic and Republican political influencers take part in our final survey before election day.
In the race for President of the United States, influential Rhode Island political insiders have weighed in regarding who has run the better "ground game" in Rhode Island leading up to the election. According to our results, Democratic influencers felt Obama has run a better ground campaign by a wide margin while a majority of Republican influencers surveyed said the ground campaign up to this point has been even. Patch surveyed 53 Republicans and 51 Democrats, asking regardless of their partisan preference, which presidential campaign do you think has run the better "ground game" campaign during the general election in Rhode Island? Among those who responded, 55.6% of Democrats said Barack Obama has run the better ground campaign by a …
Monday, November 5, 2012
UNITE HERE Local 217 ratified a new contract with Twin River and endorsed Question 1, according to a release.
More than 200 Twin River food and beverage workers and members of UNITE HERE Local 217 ratified a new, five-year agreement with Twin River that will boost hourly earnings by 12 percent by the end of the contract. The union also passed a measure endorsing Question 1, a state ballot issue that would allow casino gambling in the Lincoln venue. The ballot question, if approved, would "preserve the good middle class jobs at Twin River," the union said in a release. Under the new agreement, Twin River will increase its pension contribution by more than 6 percent per year and offer health insurance to more employees. “Most folks are talking about creating jobs, but very few people are talking about creating good jobs. Twin River has committed …
Here are five things you may need to know before heading to the polls on November 6 for the 2012 Elections.
Make your forefathers proud and vote this Tuesday in the 2012 Elections. Hopefully by now you know the issues and the candidates, but that's not all you need to know. From polling locations to what you need to vote to ballot questions, here's North Kingstown Patch's list of things you need to know before voting. Just because there's a polling place down the road doesn't mean that's where you should go to vote. Before heading out the door, make sure you're heading to the right place. There are two great tools to help you find your polling location: Simply enter your address into either website and find out your polling place. Both sites also list ballot questions for your region. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, November 6…
Bob Pop
10:29 am on Thursday, November 15, 2012
yea because bush did such a great job, yay republicans? ;) more ›