NC Primary results thread

[ncrainbowgrrl]

Any surprises where you are? I think the Durham Co DA race is about to get really interestingly close. Any thoughts?

[nclib]

1. I don't know.

I believe there won't be a runoff if a candidate has over 40% of the vote and Nifong has 45. Unless Black makes a surge, Nifong should remain DA.

[GreenInNC]

2. Mecklenburg

Looks like one of our asshole Republican state legislators is going down. John Rhodes looks like toast.

[GreenInNC]

5. slow reporting of results

What gives? With as low a turnout as is being reported, why don't we have results here more than three hours after the polls closed? Could it be these new machines? hmmmmmmmm

[Richard Steele]

3. Here's what the Herald-Sun has listed so far (final?)

Looks like all of these are final;
all precincts are listed as reporting.

Durham District Attorney
(58 of 58 precincts reporting)
Keith A. Bishop 3,288 13.3%
Freda Black 10,269 41.5%
Mike Nifong 11,168 45.2%




Durham County Sheriff
(58 of 58 precincts reporting)
Joe W. Bowser 3,187 13.2%
Tony Butler 2,080 8.6%
Worth L. Hill 18,830 78.1%




N.C. House 29
(23 of 23 precincts reporting)
Larry D. Hall 2,223 30.0%
Mary D. Jacobs 1,563 21.1%
Angela V. Langley 607 8.2%
Sandy Ogburn 1,918 25.9%
T. Brock Winslow 1,090 14.7%




Durham Schools District 1
(16 of 16 precincts reporting)
Omega Curtis Parker 2,047 40.7%
Dolores Davis Paylor 1,705 33.9%
Jacqueline D. Wagstaff 1,276 25.4%




Durham Schools District 2
(17 of 17 precincts reporting)
Fredrick A. Davis 2,982 53.7%
Regina J. George-Bowden 1,866 33.6%
D.J. Waldow 709 12.8%




Durham Schools District 3
(16 of 16 precincts reporting)
Phillip W. Graham 2,912 33.4%
Kirsten Kainz 4,968 57.0%
Steven Matherly 843 9.7%




Orange County Commissioners
(44 of 44 precincts reporting)
Fred Battle 3,934 15.5%
Robin Cutson 1,189 4.7%
Betty Tom Phelps Davidson 1,748 6.9%
Artie Franklin 651 2.6%
Alice Gordon 6,314 24.9%
Barry Jacobs 6,446 25.4%
Michael R. Nelson 5,100 20.1%




Orange County Schools
(17 of 17 precincts reporting)
Susan Hallman 2,819 23.1%
Tony McKnight 2,035 16.7%
Anne Medenblik 2,378 19.5%
Debbie Piscitelli 2,496 20.5%
Ted Triebel 2,467 20.2%


And apparently (big surprise-NOT!) our shiny new ES&S tabulators
failed to function 100%.
I'll be getting a firsthand report from a poll volunteer
tomorrow, about the problems they encountered with one.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

4. I'm happy Mike Nelson won (Orange county)

um- I guess some of y'all knew that already, reading my LTTEs in all of the Orange County papers. :blush:

[Richard Steele]

7. Yeah, I had a feeling you'd be happy!

P.S.: Beth made me promise to tell you she says, "Hi!".

[ncrainbowgrrl]

9. Say "hi" right back!

btw- I have a really cute pic of her w/Nora's BIG kitty cat on her lap. Perhaps one day I can actually get it to you guys! :hi:

[Hissyspit]

11. Here we are in another forum, dick.

I had a list of DUers from North Carolina a while back, and I think you were on it, but I forgot you were from around here. Whereabouts are you?

[Richard Steele]

13. I'm in the vibrant, pulsating, cultural and artistic HEART of NC!

Also sometimes known as "Durham".
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Hissyspit]

16. I knew that before. I had just forgotten.

Ate at that French restaurant a few weeks ago off of 5th Street. It is in the same building as an Asian restaurant. Do you know the name of it? The steak I had was the most tender steak I had EVER had in my life (if you're vegetarian, they have things there you could eat, too) and I want to recommend it to people, but I can't remember the name of it. It is around the corner from Nice Price Books.

[Richard Steele]

18. You mean Vin Rouge on 9th street?

I had the Steak Tartare the one time I was there- outstanding!

[Hissyspit]

19. Yes! Ninth Street, sorry, I went to UNC-CH.

Plan on going back there sometime. We sat out on the "veranda" and it was a bit chilly that night.

[NCarolinawoman]

26. I live in Wake county but I heard some GREAT things about Nelson

on 1360 AM radio today! My lucky brother, who lives out in the middle of the woods in Orange county, got to vote for him.

Uh, make that "in the middle of the woods in a HOUSE". LOL

[ncrainbowgrrl]

27. YAY for rural Orange County!

That was the part of the county that Mike was most worrried about in the weeks heading up to yesterday night. That was why I wrote my LTTE and tried to address how Mike would be good for the ENTIRE county, not just the part that has the resources to provide "the best" for the citizens. He's one of the few true politicians that is in politics for the CORRECT reason- to create change and make life better for a greater number of people. It's not like any of these local positions pay enough to actually live on around here. It's hard to make ends meet without a second job. For those that don't teach at UNC or Duke, it may not be that easy to find a job that will allow the time committment to what essentially is an unacknowledged second job with a strong time commitment associated with the job description.


Thanks for letting me know this- it put a BIG smile on my face! :yourock:

[ncrainbowgrrl]

6. NC House District 10- Rethug side-incumbent in trouble.

:D

(And considering this particular one keeps bringing up inane bills that relate to what I do professionally,....)

[ncrainbowgrrl]

8. Anyone remember where Burr is from? Does he have a kid named Justin?

I know I could look it up, but ....

[NCarolinawoman]

12. Winston Salem? n/t

[Hissyspit]

10. What was the method I used to vote today?

I filled in a circle with a black pen on a piece of paper, and then feed it into a machine that then listed me as the 80th voter. What kind of voting would that be referred to as? It was in Hoke county.

[Richard Steele]

14. That box was one of our new ES&S computerized tabulators.

It actually counts the votes as you feed the ballots in (in theory)
and the totals are stored on a memory card the pollworkers
remove at the end of the day.

Then every polling place transmits their card data over the net
to a central PC which adds them all up.

[nclib]

15. How is that different than what we used to have?

The ballot feeder seemed to be the same just the ballot was different. Took a bit longer to fill in all those circles. Felt like I was back in school. :)

[Richard Steele]

20. In theory, not much different. In practice, it's one step closer...

...to making totally fraudulent elections a real possibility.

We just have more tabulators than the old method did.
And, thankfully, our system still has paper ballots that
can be recounted by hand if any funny business occurs.

Problem is, all we need NOW is a few corrupt officials
in the right positions to DIRECT and CONTROL that recount process,
and BAM! we can become another Florida or Ohio.

I simply don't trust the very concept, myself.
I want FEWER electronics involved in the political process, not more.
And all of the big three EV manufacturers (Diebold, Sequoia, ES&S)
are each as bad as the others, IMO.

ALL THREE are Repub-supporters, and all of their various systems
are so easily hackable that various computer-security experts
have concluded that they are DESIGNED to be hacked.

And, all issues of fraud aside, the machines are overpriced junk.

It's a classic taxpayer ripoff:
1: Company donates $$$ to corrupt politicians.
2: Politicians write laws requiring Government purchase of Company's products.
3: Company provides shoddy product to Gov, at 3 to 5 times actual market value.
3:a: Company clears two or four HUNDRED percent profit on cheap junk,
and with their ill-gotten gains...
4: Company donates $$$ to corrupt politicians.

[nclib]

24. Thank you.

I agree with you about the electronics. I'm just grateful we still have paper to double check when needed.

[Hissyspit]

17. So how can that be corrupted? It seems like I am doing a paper ballot

but then something electronic takes over. I know Diebold sucks, but it seems NC has chased them off. Are ES&S bad guys, too?

[Richard Steele]

21. Please see my post #20 above.

Or better yet, check out the "Election Reform" forum here.

The folks in the FR forum are real experts on this,
they can "quote names and dates" on all these issues.

Compared to them, I'm an illiterate who never heard the word 'touchscreen'!

[Hissyspit]

22. Thanks, dick. I've been reading the election fraud

posts since the 2004 election and I STILL can't keep it straight - which is part of the problem: they dazzle with bullshit.

[SunDrop23]

23. David Price wins big (yaaaay!)

And now will face Steve Acuff.

[Alfalfa Wolf]

25. Durham DA Race

So folks, what do you think of the results of the Durham DA race? Do you think Nifong won fair and square?

I hear Freda's not conceding yet. She's gonna wait for the absentee and provisional ballots to come in.

[newyawker99]

28. Hi Alfalfa Wolf!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[left of center]

29. The surprise here in Chatham county was not that

the progressive candidates won, but that they won by such wide margins.

Thompson 63%

Vanderbeck 61%

Lucier 59%

Chatham is a one party county. The Democratic primary determines who will win come November. That said, there are a lot of donkey-masked Republicans in this county.