As I have mentioned here earlier I helped a friend of mine, John Mahoney, with his sticker campaign. Saturday I pick up the paper and see a headline "Mahoney Loses Votes to Other Write-ins in Paxton." Click here for the whole story.
The paper lists the following results:
Spellane 1157
Mahoney 744
Blanks 43
Total 1,944
Now look at the vote for President in Paxton
Obama 1256
Mccain 1194
Nader 34
Barr 10
Mckinney 4
Baldwin 3
Total Votes 2550
Different totals?
The paper lists the following results:
Spellane 1157
Mahoney 744
Blanks 43
Total 1,944
Now look at the vote for President in Paxton
Obama 1256
Mccain 1194
Nader 34
Barr 10
Mckinney 4
Baldwin 3
Total Votes 2550
Different totals?
Maybe I can e-mail the person who wrote the article? No, there is no author, so am I to assume the Town of Paxton issued this press release? If they did then what town official has the right to make an editorial comment like "Mr Spellane ... received an overwhelming majority of the votes in the Worcester part of the district". Again this is factually incorrect Isn't a majority 51% and since this was not achieved how can anyone consider it an overwhelming majority?
8 comments:
the bookkeepahs fault Wild Will
Seriously I can only imagine this was a press release from the Town of Paxton itself.
Their job is to merely report the results. Their editorial comments are extremely inprofessional and biased and not because they were against my friend. Even if it were the other way around, press releases like this are completely wrong.
Anyone know who would issue this from the Town of Paxton?
Bill, if they have a Town Manager the press release would most likely originate from that office. If not, I believe the Board of selectman would handle all press release.
Just because someone cast a ballot for the president, doesn't mean they necessarily cast a vote for a state rep. That would explain your different totals.
Also, what were the results in the Worcester part of the district. Those votes wouldn't be included in the Paxton results.
According to Wednesday's paper, Spellane got 8,943 votes to Mahoney's 4,875. I don't know if those figures include Paxton or not. If they do, that means Spellane got 7786 to Mahoney's 4131, or 65%. If they don't include Paxton, it's 64%.
Steve
Blanks were 43
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Steve:
Blanks would need to be like 600+ not 43.
Bill
Guess I didn't read it closely enough. I thought there were three names, Spellane, Mahoney, and some other guy.
Maybe blanks are the ones with a write-in name but no X in the appropriate space.
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