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.
Keep up with the local tallies on Tiverton-Little Compton Patch as the results roll in tonight in real time.
The unofficial results are in, declaring the winners and losers in the local races and candidates who hung in on the campaign trail for 13 hours on Election Day, traveling to polling precincts, touting political signs and braving 30-degree temperatures. Tiverton Town Council Incumbent Jay J. Lambert mimicked his 2010 win, again pulling in the highest number of votes with 2,925 total votes, according to tallies from the town's seven precincts. Incumbents Edward A. Roderick, Brett N. Pelletier and Joan Chabot will join Lambert at the table when the new council is sworn in on Tuesday, Nov. 13 at the Town Hall. Newcomers to the council are Denise M. deMedeiros, James J. Arruda, and William P. Gerlach. These approximate counts do not include …
Updates on the 2012 Tiverton and Little Compton elections will be posted here throughout the day. Connect with us on Facebook or Twitter at #PatchElections.
Today is Election Day! Here is a guide to help you make a decision, cast your vote and follow the elections real time on Patch. 1:36 p.m.: Tiverton recived 515 applications for mail-in and emergency ballots for the 2012 election, a significant increase over the 352 mail-in ballots received four years ago. Town Clerk Nancy Mello, who is running unopposed for re-election, attributed the increase to relaxed state standards for applying for those types of ballots. 1:42 p.m.: At Tiverton Town Hall, moderator Joann Bollin reported 42 newly registered voters participated in the presidential/vice presidential election. According to Nancy Mello, town clerk, this gets unregistered residents registered and eligible for voting in future races. "It …
In Rhode Island, the voter ID law requires voters to present some sort of ID before they will be allowed to vote tomorrow – here's what you'll need.
Voters in Rhode Island will need to present one of the following forms of ID, according to the R.I. Board of Elections: *The Rhode Island Secretary of State's office is issuing free voter photo ID cards to individuals who do not possess any of the valid Photo IDs listed above. See the Secretary of State's website for additional information on the program, or call (401) 222-2340. Except for birth certificates, Social Security cards, and government-issued medical cards, all other non-photo IDs must contain the current name and address of the voter, and must have been issued after the recent general election on Nov. 2, 2010: Any voter who is unable to present valid identification at the polls, will be required to cast a provisional ballot. …
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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Tuesday, November 6, 2012
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 …
The who, what, where, when, how and why you need to vote on Nov. 6, 2012 in Tiverton and Little Compton.
Today is Election Day! Here is a guide to help you make a decision, cast your vote and follow the elections real time on Patch. Voter Information Here are some ways to use Patch on Election Day: Here's some information on the issues impacting the 2012 election: List of Tiverton-Little Compton Candidates:
Monday, November 5, 2012
A resident levied a complaint against a school employee after seeing pins purporting a local political organization on a desk in the building.
The Tiverton Town Clerk launched an investigation last week into a single claim that one of its elementary school secretaries displayed political pins on a desk in the building. Tiverton town employees and officers, including those in the school department, are expressly prohibited from influencing the outcome of voting contests through the distribution or publication of election materials, according to Sec. 1218 of the Tiverton Town Charter. This section was added during the last charter update in 2011. Hilton Road resident Donna Cook submitted a formal complaint to the clerk's office on Monday, Oct. 29 at 10:16 a.m. stating that she saw three Tiverton 1st pins displayed on the desk of a Fort Barton Elementary School secretary - what …
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 as well as at Newport Grand on Aquidneck Island. 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 …
Bob Pop
10:29 am on Thursday, November 15, 2012
yea because bush did such a great job, yay republicans? ;) more ›