{news} Re: vote results: how Green is your town?
Tim McKee
timmckee at mail.com
Wed Dec 3 08:55:11 EST 2008
"we are officially putting into the record books the most historic
election" is the telling statement,, no one will care in January if
votes are not counted for Greens or others,, I think we need to put out a
press release saying more and more OUR vote was not counted! Tim McKee
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Bedell"
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Subject: Re: {news} Re: vote results: how Green is your town?
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 23:22:49 -0500
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Here is a recent press release from the SOTS. The SOTS is required to
certify the winners, but not the exact counts, in November. Notice it
says
final vote tallies will be published in January.
David Bedell
http://www.ct.gov/sots/lib/sots/releases/2008/11.26.08_bysiewicz_certifies_2008_general_election_results.pdf
SUSAN BYSIEWICZ
SECRETARY OF THE STATE
CONNECTICUT
For Immediate Release:
November 26, 2008
For more information:
Av Harris: (860) 509-6255
Cell: (860) 463-5939
- NEWS RELEASE -
SECRETARY BYSIEWICZ CERTIFIES 2008 ELECTION
RESULTS
SECRETARY OF THE STATE MAKES HISTORIC ELECTION RESULTS OFFICIAL;
RECORD
NUMBERS OF VOTERS ELECT PRESIDENT, MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, MEMBERS OF
THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Hartford: Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz today officially
certified
the results of the 2008 General
Election on November 4th for the offices of President, Representative
in
Congress, and members of the
Connecticut General Assembly. The 2008 general election saw a record
number
of Connecticut voters go
to the polls. According to Connecticut General Statute 9-315, the
Secretary
of the State, together with the
State Treasurer and the State Comptroller, must "declare what persons
are
elected" on the last Wednesday
of the month of election.
"Connecticut voters came to the polls in record numbers on Election
Day,"
said Secretary Bysiewicz. "By
certifying these election results, we are officially putting into the
record
books the most historic election
our country and our state have ever seen."
By a nearly 2-to-1 margin, Connecticut voters chose Democrats Barack
Obama
and Joe Biden for President
and Vice President. Democratic candidates John Larson(CT-1), Joe
Courtney(CT-2), Rosa DeLauro(CT-
3), Jim Himes(CT-4), and Christopher Murphy(CT-5) were also elected
to the
111th Congress of the United
States. Democratic candidates were also elected to 114 seats in the
State
House of Representatives and 24
seats in the State Senate. Republican candidates were elected to 37
seats in
the House of Representatives
and 12 seats in the State Senate. (A complete list of 2008 election
winners
is attached).
Registrars of Voters were elected across the state, and there were
also two
constitutional questions on the
ballot statewide. Question #1, asking voters if there should be a
constitutional convention, was defeated
by a 60%-40% margin. Question #2, asking voters if the constitution
should
be amended to allow 17 yearolds
to vote in primaries if they will turn 18 on or before Election Day,
passed
with 64% of voters voting
yes and 36% voting no. With the official certification of the
election
results today, the 17 year-old voting
Constitutional Amendment takes affect and is now state law in
Connecticut.
A full Statement of the Vote including final vote tallies for
candidates for
President, Congress and General
Assembly by town, county, Congressional District and Legislative
District
will be published by the
beginning of the General Assembly's 2009 legislative session in
January.
Technically, voters chose 7 electors for President and Vice
President, a
number equal to the total number of
U.S. Senators and Representatives in Congress from Connecticut. The 7
Democratic Electors will meet in
a formal ceremony in the State Senate Chambers on Monday December 15,
2008
to officially cast their
ballots for President and Vice President. Similar Electoral College
votes
will be cast in state capitols
throughout the country on that day. The Electoral College vote will
be
officially counted in a Special Joint
Session of Congress on Thursday January 8, 2009 with outgoing Vice
President
Cheney presiding.
In Connecticut, 80.5% of registered voters cast ballots on November
4th, the
highest voter turnout
percentage since 1992. A record was set in 2008 for the highest
number of
Connecticut residents to vote on
Election Day, with 1,643,488 casting ballots. Earlier this week,
Secretary
Bysiewicz reported that the
towns in Connecticut with the highest voter turnout percentages and
winners
of the 2008 "Democracy Cup"
are: New Hartford (94.78%), Weston (90.84%), Newtown (88.97%), and
Stamford
(81.65%). The award is
given annually to the small, medium, large-sized towns and city with
the
highest voter turnout on Election
Day. Between January 1, 2008 and the October 28, 2008 voter
registration
deadline more than 300,000
Connecticut new voters registered, including more than 130,000 young
voters
between the ages of 18 and
29.
STATE OF CONNECTICUT
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE STATE
We, the undersigned, having canvassed the Returns of the Presiding
Officers
of the
Electors' Meetings in the several towns of this State, hereby declare
the
following
named persons to be chosen and appointed
ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:
Shirley W. Steinmetz
Nicholas Paindiris
Andrea Jackson Brooks
Jim Ezzes
Lorraine McQueen
Deborah McFadden
Ken Delacruz
Dated in Hartford, Connecticut
This twenty-sixth day of November
Two Thousand Eight
________________________________________________________
Susan Bysiewicz
Secretary of the State
________________________________________________________
Howard G. Rifkin
Deputy Treasurer
________________________________________________________
Nancy Wyman
Comptroller
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