Preliminary election results

[elements.livejournal.com]

Via the Somerville Journal and Somerville News, results of the preliminary election today:

Mayor: Joe Curtatone and Suzanne Bremer (with Rick Scirocco eliminated)

Ward 6 alderman: Rebekah Gewirtz and Charlie Chisholm (with Robert Adams eliminated)

Also, the Somerville News says turnout was higher than expected, which is always nice. The Journal hasBoth websites have a bunch of pictures of the scene at various polling places.

Comments

Re: Was that really necessary?

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Surely the city of Somerville can figure out how to deal with these races in a single round, saving us tens of thousands of dollars.

Not only that, after all the elections we've had in the last year or so, I think there's a high risk of election fatigue. I mean, I've voted in all of them, but how many people got sick of it and didn't bother?

Re: Was that really necessary?

[elements.livejournal.com]

I have a competition of sorts with on_reserve to see which of us is the biggest supervoter nerd. But it does get tiresome with one practically every other week. It's also confusing - I know someone who thought Marty Martinez had already won the main election and didn't remember to vote again in May, and I imagine that sort of thing happens a lot.

Re: Was that really necessary?

[ron_newman]

If you lived in Ward 1 precinct 1 or Ward 2 precinct 1, you'd have yet another special election to deal with on October 9: Anthony Galluccio vs. Write-in Blank Space!

We've had an awful lot of state special elections this year.

Anthony Galluccio vs. Write-in Blank Space!

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

How Soviet!