Tuesday, November 6, 2012
See who prevailed in the tight race for the District 2 seat.
Update, 5:30 a.m., Wednesday Rebecca Smondrowski of Gaithersburg appears to have edged out Rockville resident Fred Evans in a close general election race for the District 2 seat on the county's Board of Education. Election night unofficial results from the Montgomery County Board of Elections showed Smondrowski with 117,294 votes (50.59 percent) and Evans, a former Montgomery County Public Schools principal, with 113,642 votes (49.02 percent). When combined with early voting numbers, this gave Smondrowski a total of 149,184 votes compared to Evans' 141,049--a lead of more than 8,000 votes. The unofficial results show board members Phil Kauffman and Christopher Barclay with enough votes to be reelected to their respective at-large and …
Looking to vote in Tuesday’s general election? Patch has you covered with what you need to know for Election Day.
Stay with Patch all day as we update this article with news and information from the polls and live election results after 9 p.m. Sign up for breaking news alerts in your inbox. Be sure to check our Election Guide for information on all races and ballot questions in Montgomery County. Connect with us on Facebook and Twitter too! --- Update, 12 p.m., Tuesday: Wheaton polling places see heavy morning turnout and long lines, and election judges tell Patch that the Montgomery County Board of Elections advised them to expect an 80-85 percent voter turnout. ---- Polls open at 7 a.m. for Tuesday's general election, but the Board of Elections recommends that voters avoid peak hours by going to their polling place between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. …
My husband and I cancel out each other's votes in many elections, but the effect on our kids is a good one.
Today is election day, also known as The Day All the Horrible Phone Calls and Political Ads End. It is a good day. The problem for my family, however, is that my husband and I are on opposite ends of the political spectrum and today is the day that an icy silence descends over my house. Remember those long days of hanging chads after the 2000 election? My husband and I didn't speak for probably two weeks. It got ugly. Now, of course, we have children to consider, forcing us to remain at least outwardly civil, regardless of whom edges out ahead in what is sure to be a nail-biter presidential election. Because one of us is a blue voter and one is a red voter, I'm assuming this makes my kids purple, which I actually think is a really cool …
Monday, November 5, 2012
Take a look back at how the county voted on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008.
Four years ago—on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008—the Obama-Biden ticket received 71.6 percent of Montgomery County's votes, according to the Maryland State Board of Elections' website. That was 314,444 votes. The McCain-Palin ticket, in comparison, got only 118,608 votes from Montgomery County, or 27 percent of the county's votes. Rep. Christopher Van Hollen (D-Kensington) won his House of Representatives seat four years ago with 218,111 votes (74.4 percent of the county's votes). His Republican challenger, Steve Hudson, received 22.4 percent of the county's votes (65,626 votes). Across the state, about 430,000 Marylanders voted early in the 2012 election, The Baltimore Sun reported: Democrats made up two-thirds (66 percent) of the 430,000 early …
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Debate continues over the costs, benefits, and potential biases of the program.
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
By Carl Straumsheim Capital News Service Early voting in Maryland was meant to make the ballot box more accessible by giving voters additional chances to cast their ballots, but instead, the perceived shortcomings of the program have spawned a debate over costs, benefits and partisan bias. Early voting turnout has been low since its introduction in 2010. Only 2.4 percent of all eligible voters cast their ballots ahead of the April 3 primary election—roughly the same as in 2010. Compared to the 2006 election, total turnout in 2010 stayed flat, with one in two Marylanders voting, though about 6 percent of those voters cast their ballots before Election Day, according to data from the Maryland State Board of Elections. Michael Cain, a …
Esther French
3:51 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Thanks for the clarification, Theresa! Yes, voters should vote countywide for the Board of Education races. more ›