NATIONAL GOVERNOR/OTHER RESULTS THREAD (LATE RESULTS/POSTMORTEM)

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URGENT UPDATE:
 
If you live in Bridgeport and you were turned away from the poll due to problems, please go back to your poll and vote.  The problems have been fixed. The polls listed below are open until 10 pm tonight.
 
Some polls in the City of Bridgeport are now open until 10 p.m. tonight. After voting problems were widely reported in Bridgeport earlier in the day, hours have been extended until 10.

Any registered Bridgeport voter who has not yet had a chance to vote today is urged to go to their polling station before 10 p.m. and cast their ballots.

The following Bridgeport polling locations will be open until 10pm this evening:
 
Park City
Longfellow
Beardsley
Read
Central
Winthrup
Hallen
Hooker
Blackrock
JFK
Blackham
City Hall

Selectively opening polls should be illegal.  It is patently unfair.

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Why are ME/VT/NY slow to count?

ME and VT leave it up to the towns to count votes.  Some are slower than others.

NY just closed at 9 - so, it's early.
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In Westchester, which is a pretty good bellwether, usually, Wilson (R) is leading (Comptroller), Donovan (R) (AG) is down.   They're very preliminary results, FWIW.

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Foley looks like he has a pretty decent lead right now.

Remember - Bridgeport will report late.  The Park City is Dem Central.

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In the NY AG Race, Schneiderman (D) is up by 10.  In the Comptroller race, Wilson (R) is up by 4.

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NY State Senate could be 31-31

Who is winning?

SD-37 in Westchester is 50-50 with 80% in and the Dem leading by about 200 votes.

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What the hell is happening in CT? No precincts from Bridgeport (there are 25), only 9 out of 35 from New Haven, only 4 out of 23 from Hartford, none (out of 23) from Stamford, none (out of 14) from Norwalk,  none (out of 17) from Meriden, none (out of 13) from Fairfield, none (out of 7) from Danbury, none (out of 11) from Hamden. Most biggish-cized towns and citiex haven't reported zilch or almost zilch. Greenwich, West Hartford and Waterbury are done reporting, but where are the rest?

Bridgeport had an issue supposedly running out of ballots and kept some precincts open later in an effort to manufacture Democratic votes. It's disgusting, really.

Bridgeport officials are incompetent and holding polls open only in one part of the state is repugnant.  Keep all open later or none at all.  Treat all voters equally.

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7th district
Craig Johnson (D-incumbent) 50%
Jack Martins (R) 50%
42% precincts reporting, Martins leading by a handful of votes

37th district
Suzi Oppenheimer (D-incumbent) 50%
Bob Cohen (R) 50%
79% precincts reporting, Oppenheimer leads by about 200 votes

40th district
Greg Ball 52%
Mike Kaplowitz 48%
90% precincts reporting

60th District
Antoine Thompson (D-incumbent) 49%
Mark Grisanti (R) 51%
97% precincts reporting

Plus 4th District
Brian Foley (D-incumbent) 42%
Lee Zeldin (R)   58%
92% in

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Kennedy declared winner in the 42nd Senate District

Where does that put us?

Edit:  Ball was declared winner in SD-40 - a Republican hold.

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Kennedy declared winner in the 42nd Senate District

Where does that put us?

GOP up 30-29 in called races, the 7th, 37th and 60th too close to call, but Dems have a slight edge in all three. 

If the Dems hold the three they have a slight lead in it will stay 32-30 Dems, each side picking up one from the other and cancelling each other out (3rd and 11th)

Does that include the Dem win in SD-38?  I think that was an open-seat pickup.  (Or was the dead Rockland guy a Democrat)?

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That Republican in NY-AD-01 who was up by 1 vote with all but one precinct in ended up up by 40 votes when all precincts were counted.  Undoubtedly, it will come down to absentees and there will be a recount.  There's still hope someone wins by one vote.

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I don't understand. Foley still leads in CT with 95% in, yet Malloy is the winner? What is going on?

Bridgeport and New Haven are incompetent when counting votes.  Bridgeport is also incompetent when making sure there are enough ballots so that everyone can vote, too - and kept some polls open until 10 to create a good Democratic margin.  

I'm sick and tired of that cheap Democrat trick in incompetent inner cities.   Run your elections properly.  Then, there's no need to cheat and keep polls open later than the rest of the state.

Foley should ask for a recount and sue.  Every Bridgeport ballot should be scrutinized.  I simply don't trust them.

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Would Malloy sign a bill that abolishes the death penalty?

Yes, and he will.

If Malloy becomes governor. 

The inept Connecticut Secretary of State is declaring it over before receiving certified results from the towns.  Foley claims he's ahead in his tally.  Malloy claims the SoS is wrong in the other direction.  It needs to be within 2,000 votes for a recount.

There will be much suing.

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The CT-GOV race is going to be nasty -- I just don't see Malloy pulling within the 2000 votes needed to instigate a recount.  The only way I see Malloy winning is if there was some discrepancy in the results that the SoS recorded.

You have that backwards.  The SoS claims Malloy won.  Foley claims he won.  Malloy claims his lead is bigger than what the SoS claims.  The SoS is speaking out of turn about whether there will be a recount before receiving certified results from the towns.  There always can be transcription errors.

Meanwhile, across the border in New York, Westchester County stopped counting votes because the machines were impounded.  One Assembly race (AD-91) and at least one State Senate race is close (SD-37).  The Republican in another Westchester SD, SD-35, is behind by about 10 with 70% of the vote in, but refuses to concede because the uncounted impounded precincts are supposedly favorable to him.

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And the AP has rescinded its projection of Democrat Malloy as the CT-Gov winner.

Confusion.  Which usually brings lawsuits.

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Ugh, stupid networks calling it getting my hopes up and then un-calling it.

The CT Attorney General looks like she screwed up pretty badly here.

This is not Blumenthal's doing.  The CT Secretary of State is responsible for running CT elections, though she blames it all on Bridgeport.  That's partially true, I guess, since towns run elections in Connecticut - but she's supposed to supervise elections and never asked them if they had enough ballots.  Trusting Bridgeport to run fair, smooth elections isn't very smart, given their past history.

This is the same Secretary of State who was told by the state's Supreme Court that she couldn't run for AG because she didn't have the necessary legal experience (need to be a practicing attorney for at least 10 years - she claimed she was practicing while supervising SoS lawyers, even though she went on inactive status to avoid paying license fees), and the same Secretary of State who was rebuked by the courts after she claimed voters couldn't wear WWE-related shirts to the polls.  

So, basically, I don't trust anything the CT SoS says unless she can back it up.  And she refuses to release her by-town tally right now.

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The "retention system" is obviously better than competitive elections....or even worse....partisan competitive elections, but this case shows what really shouldn't be happening.

People fired the judges because they don't like gay marriage....not because they know or care about the law.

When judges just make up the law to suit their political agenda, discovering "rights" that heretofore have never existed, they deserve to be fired.

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Thanks a lot AP.  Now we have a headache

The SoS' reported numbers in New Haven and Bridgeport are plausible.  However, I simply don't trust her without additional proof.

This afternoon, Foley was on a CT radio program that happened to have the SoS in-studio at the time.  He asked for her town-by-town tally.  She promised it "right away".  She still hasn't released the town-by-town tally.

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Dont know if this was reported or not, but AP just switched and called gov race for Foley.

That's only half right.  The AP retracted its CT-Gov call for Malloy.  But it did NOT switch and call the race for Foley.  They're waiting for the final results to come in.

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The secretary of state is going to be announcing the winner in 10 minutes, and from what I have heard, foley picked up quite a bit of votes. Looks like she is going to reverse it.

Well, considering she was going to release her tally of the town-by-town results yesterday - and we still haven't seen them - 10 minutes probably means next week.

Your Secretary of State is an idiot.

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Bridgeport's Use Of Election Day Reverse 911 Scrutinized.

Bridgeport - Connecticut's own little banana republic.

Don't order enough ballots.  When you supposedly run out of ballots, photocopy them and let voters vote on photocopies.  Who cares if they supposedly have to be tallied by hand?  Then, run to court and claim that because voters can't vote, the polls should be open another two hours.  Ignore that you've been photocopying the ballots and voters have been voting, anyway.  Then, make a reverse 911 call to get those who haven't voted out to the polls, now open with extended hours not seen in the rest of the state.

Something stinks here.

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LOL, Connecticut.

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/local/article/Bag-of-uncounted-ballots-discovered-in-Bridgeport-797923.php

Ah, Bridgeport.  They must not have enough ballots to put Malloy over the top.  Time to find some new ones!

How predictable.

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LOL, Connecticut.

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/local/article/Bag-of-uncounted-ballots-discovered-in-Bridgeport-797923.php

Ah, Bridgeport.  They must not have enough ballots to put Malloy over the top.  Time to find some new ones!

How predictable.

Uhhh...
Malloy is already ahead without a single vote from Bridgeport counted.

Uhhhh....

Malloy is BEHIND by 8,409 votes without a single vote from Bridgeport counted.

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LOL, Connecticut.

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/local/article/Bag-of-uncounted-ballots-discovered-in-Bridgeport-797923.php

Ah, Bridgeport.  They must not have enough ballots to put Malloy over the top.  Time to find some new ones!

How predictable.

Uhhh...
Malloy is already ahead without a single vote from Bridgeport counted.

Uhhhh....

Malloy is BEHIND by 8,409 votes without a single vote from Bridgeport counted.

That result was due to glitch from AP which undereported New Haven. When AP fixed the mistake, Malloy surged ahead by 6000 votes. That's the official tally now.


http://www.politico.com/2010/maps/#/Governor/2010/CT

Wrong.  The AP's tally includes a preliminary, unofficial Bridgeport number.  The numbers I quoted came from the SoS today do not include Bridgeport.  Foley leads by 8,409 in it.

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If you had bothered to read the article, you'd realize that the ballots aren't sinister:

"The existence of these ballots, the number of the ballots, and their location and status were fully disclosed to representatives of the Foley and Malloy campaigns during the evening of the election, and the Secretary of the State's office was also similarly notified," said Bridgeport Deputy City Attorney Arthur Laske. "Any allegation that there were missing, or newly discovered ballots by the attorney for the Foley campaign is entirely incorrect."

1) I read the NBCConnecticut article, which I was going to post when I replied.  It doesn't mention that.

2) I don't trust anything a Bridgeport official says, without proof.  They are even more incompetent than the Connecticut Secretary of the State.

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Did the Conservative Party line in the New York governorship race get the 50,000 votes it needs to stay on the ballot?

They got well more than enough votes, and will move up to Row C.  The Working Families Party will move up to Row D.  The Independence Party had a bad year and will move all the way down to Row E.  The Green Party will be on Row F.  The Libertarians and Rent is 2 Damn High parties will fall short of the necessary 50,000 votes to get automatic ballot access for the next 4 years.