Democrats outnumber registered republicans 2:1!
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COUNTY ANNOUNCES VOTER TURNOUT AT 9:00 AM
The Albemarle County Department of Voter Registration & Elections is reporting on voter turnout so far this morning. As of 9:00 a.m., 5,586 people had voted in Albemarle County, with 4,282 (or 7% of the county’s eligible voters) voting in the Democratic primary and 1,304 (or 2% of the county’s eligible voters) voting in the Republican primary, for a total turnout of 9% at 9:00 am. The next measure of voter turnout in Albemarle will occur at 1:00 pm.
COUNTY ANNOUNCES VOTER TURNOUT AT 1:00 PM
The Albemarle County Department of Voter Registration & Elections is reporting on voter turnout so far today. As of 1:00 p.m., 12,705 people had voted in Albemarle County, with 9,106 (or 14.6% of the county’s eligible voters) voting in the Democratic primary and 3,599 (or 5.8% of the county’s eligible voters) voting in the Republican primary, for a total turnout of 20.4%. The next measure of voter turnout in Albemarle will occur at 4:00 pm.
COUNTY ANNOUNCES VOTER TURNOUT AT 4:00 PM
The Albemarle County Department of Voter Registration & Elections is reporting on voter turnout so far today. As of 4:00 p.m., 17,092 people had voted in Albemarle County, with 12,091 (or 19.4% of the county’s eligible voters) voting in the Democratic primary and 5,001 (or 8.0% of the county’s eligible voters) voting in the Republican primary, for a total turnout of 27.4%.
COUNTY ANNOUNCES FINAL VOTER TURNOUT
The Albemarle County Department of Voter Registration & Elections is reporting on final voter turnout and results. As of 7:00 p.m. when the polls closed, 22,953 people had voted in Albemarle County, with 16,417 (or 26.29% of the county’s eligible voters) voting in the Democratic primary and 6536 (or 10.46% of the county’s eligible voters) voting in the Republican primary, for a total turnout of 36.7% total. Vote totals and precinct results are available on the State Elections website at:
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who asked? Just curious.
Well what is it? Our votes or our predictions? Cause those be different critters.
And Chartreuse, questions like that are unpatriotic. You are displaying your pre 9/11 mindset.
Mitchell Van Yahres last political act was to endorse Obama and ask you to send the money for flowers to Obama’s campaign. As suprising as that might seem to some, it seems pure Mitch to me.
We’re goin’ miss him.
haha it won’t be the first time I’ve been accused of such.
(and yes, two different beasts for sure.)
Speaking of beasts… it seems no one likes Hillary.
“Mitchell Van Yahres last political act was to endorse Obama and ask you to send the money for flowers to Obama’s campaign”
He wants us to send money to Obama so he can buy flowers???
If hillary gets the nod, it will have been either a Bush or a Clinton in the Whitehouse since I reached voting age. That just is too 14 century europe for me. Gives me the jibblies.
Not only that, people will actually vote against Hillary. Right now the hardcore blow-toad right, like Limbaugh et al, are squirming because they find themselves in exactly the same position folks like me were in last year. John Kerry? Yeah say what you will, but I was never too excited about him (understatement), but I damn well tried to make sure that old Chimpy Mc Flightsuit was kept from doing further harm, Diebold or no. So Kerry got my vote as I bit through the inner skin of my lip.
The blow hard extreme right feels the same way about McCain. They’re golf pants are all in twist, cause he very well might end up being their boy. You will get a stronger repub turnout if its hillary, simply because they find her possible presidency so impossibly horrendous an apocalyptic, that they will swallow their misgivings about McCain, just as I swallowed mine about Mr. Skull & Bones Kerry.
/my two coppers
last election…
If hillary gets the nod, it will have been either a Bush or a Clinton in the Whitehouse since I reached voting age.
George H.W. Bush was in the White House as VP starting in 1981, so there has been a Bush or a Clinton in the White House for longer than I’ve been alive.
that’s really unsettling.
that’s my main beef with Hillary (though there are many). It’s not just repubs that will turn out to vote for whoever is running against her, I will as well.
“He wants us to send money to Obama so he can buy flowers???”
In Mitch Van Yahres’s obituary it says instead of sending flowers to Mitch’s funeral, use the money to contribute to the Obama campaign.
wanago: zombo com is breaking my brain. what is that? Also, belmont was kidding about the obama flowers.
That would be silmo.
riiiiiiiggggghhhhht. zombo com really did a number on me.
Obama: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yq0tMYPDJQ&feature=related
vs.
McCain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gwqEneBKUs&eurl
For the love of god, let these be the choices.
I’d like to see a poll about how many of us voted. I’m a 30-something in a neighborhood with a range of ages. The only people I see at the polling place are in the 30-50 age bracket. I never see younger people. It makes me sad…and a little annoyed, too. I thought Gen Y was going to save the world. Are they even voting? Proove me wrong, 18-20 year olds! Who voted?
That was supposed to be 18-30 year olds.
I voted at Clark School, and I’m 25. There were young people about (I ran into one of the Nice Jenkins there).
I voted - age 26 and the only person at the Jefferson School voting as of 12:30 PM. Sigh.
I’m 24. I’m on my way to Clark to vote now. I think that in the past, those in my age range have been apathetic towards a lot of the candidates, and really to politics in general (certainly how I’ve felt at times). But I get the feeling Obama is changing that and is getting the young people to show up. It’s covered pretty well in the new C-Ville here.
I voted this morning in Albemarle county at CATEC and turnout was definitely light, espcially giving the prediction of heavy turnout. Of course, this being the Dunlora district (not that I could afford to live there) I was the youngest person by far. And sadly, I’ve said bye-bye to 40.
I’m 23 and I voted at Cale this morning. It seemed like mostly 30+ people around and not very many. I’m pretty sure more younger people are going to turn out this election based on discussion with friends and whatnot. I think that it’s not only Obama, but maybe us younger folk (especially those unhappy with this administration) are realizing we need to get out there and vote just based on discontentment with the past few years…and thinking if we don’t want to end up with another 4 years of it we better do something about it…at least thats my hope…I tend to be rather optimistic.. I hope this post makes sense…I’m pretty sick..I should probably just go crawl under some covers…
I voted about 7:30 this morning in the downtown precinct at the rec center. Naturally, at that time of the morning, it was all older working folk. I’d imagine that the younger set generally votes after work, rather than before. No sense getting up early, if you don’t have to!
I’m 13. mirl? I voted today. I’m 30. Gobblette voted, too. she’s 27. was another younger voter at the polls at 7am. and several others older than us.
I think the internet is a bad place to get a cross sample.
I will vote when a politician can prove to me my vote will count. Seriously, my ATM machine can give me a receipt AND I can double check on the intraweb to make sure my transaction went through. I guess people don’t care as much about honest politics as they do about their money. What’s that thing about fooling some of the people all of the time, or is it fooling all of the people some of the time. Don’t you feel just a little bit duped here?
(for the record, yes I do vote, just for kicks)
i vote by absentee ballot in florida, so i KNOW my vote doesn’t count. they didn’t even try to pretend last fall, when i didn’t even GET my ballot until after election day.
where are you getting this info? And is there any info available for the city?
I was born in the run-up to the First World War, and the people at my polling place were even older than me. Out of 800, about 200 had voted by 3pm. We had a choice of electronic-only or scantron. About 1/3 chose electronic only. Fools.
I live a five minute walk from Tonsler park, which was totally empty, but I was turned away because apparently my voting district is the Jefferson Park or whatever, which is a mile away. So I had to scrape off the car and drive, only to find it completely packed. There was virtually no line for L-Z, but there were maybe 60-80 people in the A-K line. I don’t know if the old ladies were just slow or what. They need to redistrict this damn town. I should not have to drive over to Jefferson when Tonsler is less than a quarter of the distance.
So anyway, I’m waiting in the A-K line for about a half hour and maybe only 10 people have gone through, while the line has consistently gotten longer. Then they announce that they’ll split A-K into a Republican and a Democrat line, if anyone is ballsy enough to be shamed by getting in the Republican line in Charlottesville. Being that I am a nihilist, I quickly got into the Republican line and voted less than two minutes later. I feel bad for the people in line behind me. They’ll be in line until 9 pm.
Ethan, you never voted here before? Not even in the mid-term senate race? Tisk, tisk!
Election squabbles aside, I think it’s quite fair, at this point to say, “We go play hoop.”
Yes. We. Can.
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