Update…

(KCSi-T.V. News Nov 6, 2012) — Voter turn out for the November 6, 2012 elections was steady.

Voters in Stutsman County were casting ballots at the Jamestown Civic Center.

Voters in Medina, Kensal, and Pingree may also cast ballots in their towns.

At 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, Stutsman County C.O.O. Casey Bradley said about 2,800 voters had cast ballots at the Civic Center.

He expected about 5,000 voters to cast ballots.

Bradley said 1,800 absentee ballots were counted at the Stutsman County Courthouse, and more may come in and be counted if they are mailed with a postmark no later than Monday November 5, 2012.

About 2,600 voters in Stutsman County took advantage of Early Voting.

Election worker Jim Thompson said when the polls at the Civic Center opened at 7-a.m., there was a sizable line, and over 100 voters cast their ballots in a 15 minute time frame.

It was noted that there was a good turnout of college students.

The polls close at 7-p.m.

 About 75 people lined up outside the Bismarck Civic Center early
Tuesday.

Twenty-six-year-old salesman Kurt Triplett was among them.
He says worries about the economy brought him out to vote.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The auditor of a northwest North Dakota
oil boom town says a steady stream of voters is flocking to the
polls.
     Ray Auditor Kim Steffan says dozens of people made it to the
polls within an hour after they opened Tuesday.
     Steffan says the town’s population has jumped from 500 to more
than 1,200 in the past four years because of the oil boom in the
region.

She says more longtime locals came to the polls Tuesday
morning but she expects many of the new oil workers in town to vote
after they get off work.
     Thousands of people have moved to North Dakota to work in the
state’s booming oil patch. And both Democrats and Republicans have
attempted to attract their votes.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota residents have broken a
record for early voting for the second straight presidential
election.
     About 130,000 people had already voted in the state before
polling locations even opened at 7 a.m. Tuesday, smashing the
record set in 2008 by about 10,000 votes.
     About 90,000 of this year’s early voters cast ballots by mail.
Another 40,000 visited early voting precincts.
     Historically, presidential elections draw far more voters than
midterm elections. President Barack Obama did not carry heavily
Republican North Dakota in 2008 and is not expected to this year.

 

　BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Many North Dakota candidates say they
won’t be campaigning Tuesday even though a state law that bars it
has been put on hold.
     A federal judge ruled last week that North Dakota’s law against
campaigning on Election Day cannot be enforced on Tuesday. In past
elections, the law has deterred candidates from buying Election Day
ads and leaving up campaign signs in supporters’ yards.
     Democratic state Senate candidate John Grabinger, of Jamestown,
says he’ll still take the day off. Grabinger says that if
candidates haven’t made their mark yet, campaigning on Election Day
isn’t going to help.
     Along with state legislative races, voters will be deciding a
high-profile U.S. Senate race between Republican Rep. Rick Berg and
Democrat Heidi Heitkamp, a U.S. House race, and the governor’s
race.