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Monday, May 12th, 2008 |
Orange Co. Results
All results as of 12:06 a.m., Wednesday, May 7, 2008.
All results preliminary and unofficial. The Board of Elections is scheduled to certify results on May 19.
Democratic Primaries
Presidential Preference
Barack Obama 69.60% 27,824
Hillary Clinton 28.87% 11,540
Mike Gravel 0.62% 249
No preference 0.91% 363
US Senate
Kay Hagan 50.83% 17,208
Duskin C. Lassiter 2.81% 952
Jim Neal 38.64% 13,082
Howard Staley 2.34% 792
Marcus W. Williams 5.38% 1,821
Governor
Richard H. Moore 45.17% 16,753
Dennis Nielsen 2.88% 1,067
Bev Perdue 51.95% 19,265
Lieutenant Governor
Walter H. Dalton 24.93% 7,953
Hampton Dellinger 52.95% 16,889
Pat Smathers 10.03% 3,199
Dan Besse 12.08% 3,854
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Monday, May 12th, 2008 |
by Kirk Ross
Staff Writer
Going into Tuesday, higher registration numbers were already indicating a heavy turnout for Election Day, when Orange County voters would cast their ballots for everything from a tax referendum to the next president. The early vote total swelled as well, nearly reaching 18,000 votes by the close of business on Saturday, meaning that 18 percent of those registered voted prior to Election Day, a total close to the average total turnout in a typical primary year. By the time Tuesday’s votes were added in, more than 46,190 had voted in the county, putting turnout at an estimated 48 percent.
As evidenced by the results, driving the turnout was a surge of interest in the Democratic presidential race. In that contest, Barack Obama won 62 of North Carolina’s 128 delegates with 56 percent of the vote. In Orange County, where Obama had high visibility and an office full of volunteers on West Franklin Street, the Illinois senator won 70 percent of the vote to Sen. Hillary Clinton’s 29 percent. Clinton did not appear in Orange County, but her husband, former president Bill Clinton, made a stop in Hillsborough.
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Monday, May 12th, 2008 |
by Taylor Sisk
Staff Writer
Incumbent Lieutenant Governor and Chapel Hill resident Beverly Perdue scored a decisive victory on Tuesday, earning the Democratic nomination for governor over challengers Richard Moore and Dennis Nielsen. On an Election Day in which just over 36 percent of registered voters turned out statewide, Perdue gathered 56 percent of votes cast; Moore, the state treasurer, finished with 40 percent; Nielsen, a retired military officer, received 4 percent.
Moore faired slightly better in Orange County, finishing with 45 percent to Perdue’s 52 percent.
In the race for the Republican nominee for governor, Charlotte mayor Pat McCrory turned back four challengers and will face Perdue in the November general election. McCrory won 46 percent of the votes; state Sen. Fred Smith won 37 percent; attorney Bill Graham, nine percent; former state Supreme Court Justice Bob Orr, seven percent; and Elbie Powers, a farm owner, one percent.
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 |
by Kirk Ross
Staff Writer
An historic spring primary winds up this week with both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and their supporters criss-crossing the state in search of votes and North Carolinians brave enough to have their televisions on, subjected to a near-endless barrage of state and national campaign ads.
Local and some statewide candidates have been working Orange County rallies and early-voting sites as well.
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 |
by Taylor Sisk
Staff Writer
Two challengers and the incumbent are running for the North Carolina Court of Appeals seat presently held by Jim Wynn. Wynn, a Cary resident, was first elected to the Court of Appeals in 1990. He served as an associate justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court in 1998. Jewel Ann Farlow is a Gibsonville private-practice attorney. Dean R. Poirier lives in Mount Olive, is an appeals referee and has worked as an adjunct instructor of law at Mount Olive College, North Carolina Wesleyan College, Kaplan University and Liberty University.
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 |
by Susan Dickson
Staff Writer
Six candidates are vying for three seats on the Orange County Schools Board of Education. Incumbent Al Hartkopf is running for re-election, challenged by newcomers Eddie Eubanks, Steve Halkiotis, Tony McKnight, Jeff Michalski and Stan Morris.
School board member Dennis Whitling resigned in February, following his arrest on charges of embezzlement. School board member Liz Brown is not running for re-election.
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 |
by Susan Dickson
Staff Writer
Four Democratic candidates are running for one District Two seat on the Board of County Commissioners. No Republicans are running for county commissioner in the district.
A 2006 referendum approved by voters increased the board from five to seven members and split the county into two voting districts. With the exception of a portion near I-40 and Whitfield Road, the two new county districts mirror the two school systems’ boundaries, with District Two similar to the Orange County Schools District and District One similar to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools District.
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Monday, April 28th, 2008 |
by Kirk Ross
Staff Writer
Six months ago, the race for North Carolina Senate District 23, which is comprised of Orange and Person counties, was shaping up as a much different kind of contest than the one on the ballot today.
A field of three — Carrboro Alderman John Herrera and two Orange County commissioners, Moses Carey and Mike Nelson — were preparing for at least a three-way contest to fill the seat vacated by a retiring six-term incumbent, Ellie Kinnaird.
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Monday, April 28th, 2008 |
The Orange County Board of Elections will hold a demonstration of the voting process and the procedures in place at 1 p.m. on April 26.
The demonstration will be held at the Orange Enterprise Building on Valley Forge Road in Hillsborough. For more information, contact the Orange County Board of Elections at 245-2350.
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Monday, April 28th, 2008 |
Early voting started Thursday, April 17 for the May 6 election and will continue until Saturday, May 3. Registered voters can vote at the sites. Unregistered but eligible voters can ask for same day registaration at early-voting sites with identification showing their name and current address. Doing this means that you can only vote at the early-voting site. Registered voters can change registration information, but not party affiliation.
Vote early in Carrboro at the town hall and in Chapel Hill at the Morehead Planetarium, the Robert and Pearl Seymour Senior Center and the Board of Elections office in Hillsborough.
Times and more information: www.co.orange.nc.us/elect/
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