Maine's Question 1

[Holmes]

Apparently 35% of Portland still has to report, plus absentees.

      Promising, though I don't think No on 1 can count on absentees to pull it through. Aren't absentee voters largely elderly after all?

The No on 1 campaign made a heavy effort to getting all their supporters vote absentee.

     Though I wonder how much they'll win absentees by given the leanings of people who usually vote absentee.

To put it in perspective, in 2007, Portland received 127 absentee ballots, and this year they received over 7000k. Same all over the state. I'd say those who usually vote absentee are outnumbered this year.

[RI]

431 of 608 Precincts Reporting - 71%
Yes 216,040 52%
No 200,863 48%

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

I feel like unless something changes, they may be getting close to calling this, right?

[7,052,770]

Fuck.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Apparently 35% of Portland still has to report, plus absentees.

      Promising, though I don't think No on 1 can count on absentees to pull it through. Aren't absentee voters largely elderly after all?

The No on 1 campaign made a heavy effort to getting all their supporters vote absentee.

     Though I wonder how much they'll win absentees by given the leanings of people who usually vote absentee.

To put it in perspective, in 2007, Portland received 127 absentee ballots, and this year they received over 7000k. Same all over the state. I'd say those who usually vote absentee are outnumbered this year.

     Wow, I had no idea absentee voting was normally so rare in Maine.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

lol - FOX for some reason just went to a rerun of election coverage - what the heck!

[Holmes]

Why isn't Portland counting the rest of its precincts?

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

457 of 608 Precincts Reporting - 75%
 Yes 227,360 52%
 No 208,743 48%

[Kevinstat]

Why isn't Portland counting the rest of its precincts?

Portland is all in.  Those precincts (a couple of which I think are island precincts) may not have been used in this election, or reported results together with other precincts as if they were one precinct).  Only in Maine, perhaps, but Portland is all in.

It seems pretty clear that Question 1 has prevailed.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

461 of 608 Precincts Reporting - 76%
 Yes 228,329 52%
 No 209,870 48%

[Psychic Octopus]

No on 1!

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Portland's all in? That ain't good.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

476 of 608 Precincts Reporting - 78%
 Yes 237,749 52%
 No 216,667 48%

[Holmes]

South Portland still has a lot to count, by hand. Because they were photocopied ballots. And absentees.

[Lunar]

this is going to be closer than I expected, but it's hardly over folks

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

this is going to be closer than I expected, but it's hardly over folks

I figured it'd be 51-49, with yes winning, so a 4% margin is more than I figured.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

488 of 608 Precincts Reporting - 80%
 Yes 242,921 52%
 No 220,336 48%

[Holmes]

I got classes early in the morning, so I'm gonna go to bed now... I wonder what I'll wake up to in the morning. Night y'all.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

498 of 608 Precincts Reporting - 82%
 Yes 248,965 52.39%
 No 226,239 47.61%

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

502 of 608 Precincts Reporting - 83%
 Yes 250,524 52.38%
 No 227,726 47.62%

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

507 of 608 Precincts Reporting - 83%
 Name Votes Vote %
 Yes 253,933 52.51%
 No 229,700 47.49%

It's now moved from 52-48 to 53-47.  They've gotta be getting close to calling it I'd imagine.

[Meeker]

Ughhhh...

[Marokai Backbeat]

We have lost the battle, but the war is inevitably ours. Don't be discouraged, we must pick ourselves up and fight again.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

520 of 608 Precincts Reporting - 86%
 Yes 261,267 52.72%
 No 234,297 47.28%

It's over folks.

[Phony Moderate]

Clearly rigged.