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NY State is not all blue

Douglas Pratt
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I live in Orleans County, between Buffalo and Rochester. Here are the numbers from yesterday, from a truly excellent local news website, orleanshub.com:

Donald Trump won a commanding victory in Orleans County with 70 percent of the vote – 12,432 out of 17,780 ballots cast. Head to head against Kamala Harris, Trump had a 70.4 percent advantage to 29.4 percent for Harris. There were also 121 write-in votes, 145 who didn’t vote for president, and 6 that were overvotes with more than one candidate picked. The 70.0 percent for Trump with early votes, today’s in-person votes and most of the absentees compares to 71.4 percent in 2020 when he faced Joe Biden, and 66.8 percent of the election day votes in 2016 against Hillary Clinton.

I went to the Lyndonville town hall and stood in line for about 20 minutes to vote. They used to have books with the registered voter rolls, where they would look up your name and you would sign. No ID is requested, but your signature is compared to last year. This year there were tablet computers that looked up your name, and the screens were flipped around for a signature (they had a bunch of those little foam-tip styluses, which made it a lot easier). Then the screen was flipped back, and the two election judges (one Republican and one Democrat) compared it with your last signature that had been scanned in from the books. If they approved, a ballot was printed for you, put in a folder, and given to you. If they were dubious, a provisional ballot was printed for you, and it went into a sealed envelope with reference data to allow searching for your entry in the rolls. You would sign this envelope, and it would be examined later. If the examiner decided it was OK, your ballot would be removed and run through a scanner, and your vote counted. Seems like a pretty good way to run things, although a photo ID would be simpler.

I went to a table, filled in the little circles, went to the scanner, fed in my ballot, and was rewarded with a sticker. Due to the cat hair on my sweatshirt, the sticker didn't make it to the parking lot. Oh well. It was a good day in spite of that.

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Discussion (2)

  • Full Size Tabby@FullSizeTabby

    DailyWire https://www.dailywire.com/ has below the map for the presidential election results a map for the Senate and next to it a map for House races.

    I found comparing the House map and the Senate map fascinating, particularly looking at New York, California, Oregon, and Washington (state).

    The Senate map shows the concentration of "blue," and the House map shows an even greater level of concentration of "blue," especially how even in the three west coast "blue" states, "blue" is only at the very edge of the coast. "Blue" New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota also show only small geographic areas (presumably large population centers) with "blue" House results.