THE LIVE THREAD: Election 2002 Compilation Thread

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[Howlin]

Please post as much election information as you can on this thread, so we won't have a million separate threads running at one time.

And, please, NO GRAPHICS -- just links!

[CounterCounterCulture]

Sure, we can have both... this thread for the larger state races (Senator/Governor) and individual state threads for the lesser, more localized races...

CALIFORNIA STATE Election Discussion Thread

[DJtex]

From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram:

FORT WORTH - Tarrant County elections workers will be counting ballots through the night to tabulate votes after officials found a programming error that failed to detect straight party votes. Final tallies could be completed by early morning Wednesday, said Robert Parten, Tarrant County's elections administrator.

County election officials checking voting machines early Tuesday morning found that a programming error was causing ballots cast for a straight party ticket to not register votes for the candidates of that party, Parten said.

After confirming that the problem existed in voting machines at another precinct, Parten decided to count all of the county ballots in one location and has made plans to bring them from the precincts to a downtown election office at 600 W. Weatherford Street.

"There is more control at a central counting location than at the precincts," Parten said. "It's exactly the same procedure as a recount."

Full election results may not be available until about 7 p.m. Wednesday, he said,

A total of 360,000 votes were expected to be cast in Tarrant County, Parten said.

[Snake65]

To Dems: "all your seats belong to us"

BUMP THAT

[Oldeconomybuyer]

6:03PM ET (Reuters) - The first polls began to close on Tuesday [snip]

Voting ended in parts of Indiana and Kentucky, where several key House races will be decided, but no results were available. Television networks were expected to go slow on projections as the nation's largest exit polling service announced their results were unreliable. [snip]

[RightWingMama]

It's going to be a long night tonight.
I think I feel a "sick day" coming on for tomorrow!

Thanks for the Ping, Howlin.

[Leto]

I got a call from the Forrester campaign at 3:47pm, The call stated that the exit polls the campaign was running showed a dead heat state wide as of 3pm EST. Stressed the importance of getting out the vote.

Hopefully NJ, will defy the "experts" and be up for grabs this evening.

One factor may be th fact that the Louse didn't pour in "street money" to buy votes the way the Gore and Corzine did.

[Petronski]

In case of inclement digital weather here on FreeRepublic, you can take shelter with our Canadian friends here.

[Carolinamom]

Straight Republican voter marking place here for later.....need nap now preparing for the long night ahead.

[newguy357]

Hi, I've lurked off and on for a while, but this is my first post. I look forward to hearing everyone's thoughts on this nail-biter of an election day.

[glock rocks]

hey, Darlin'

beautiful but cold day in utah. just got back from punching the "right" chads through the page.

now it's time for a tall refreshing beverage, some comfort food, and a calm evening watching the returns... yah, right :o)

[Oldeconomybuyer]

News 29 TV - Minnesotans are heading to the polls in high numbers. Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer says there's been few complications and an impressive turnout so far. Election officials say it will likely be after midnight before the votes are tallied. All Senate and absentee ballots will be counted by hand.

[riri]

An ex-Clintonite yet.

|What about us in AZ? We have got Janet NapoliReno in a supposed dead heat with Matt Salmon. It is mind boggling.

[terilyn]

Here and waiting for numbers.

Minnesota may have an answer by about 1:00 am CST. All the supplemental ballots for the Coleman/Mondale Senate race must be hand counted.

[Petronski]

The call stated that the exit polls the campaign was running showed a dead heat state wide as of 3pm EST.

Oh my, that would be sweet.

I have three dear hopes for this evening:

1) Forrester over Lautenberg
2) Cole over Mondale
3) Pataki AND the indie over McCall (putting Hillary! on line C).

Ah, but I'm just a dreamer.

[Cicero]

Bump for later.

[mykdsmom]

Hey Howlin.......glad to know you're coming downtown to hang out with us for a while.

Drive safe and see you in little bit. I'm waiting for hubby to go vote after work and get home then I can leave.

MKM

[newguy357]

I hail from minnesota--I voted straight republican a few hours ago.

It's going to be a long night

[Catspaw]

I'm going to need a nap--I was up late for the Packer game last night and now the elections. I have a feeling, though, that it's going to be quite a while, maybe even days, before we know the outcome of some of the races.

[justlurking]

What part of NO GRAPHICS did you not understand?

[mrsmith]

Some State election web pages with online results:

New Jersey

Connecticutt

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Maryland

Minnesota

Missouri

N. Carolina

Pennsylvania

S. Carolina

Virginia