{"id":6817,"date":"2012-11-06T11:24:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T17:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=6817"},"modified":"2012-11-07T10:10:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T16:10:29","slug":"voter-turn-out-steady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=6817","title":{"rendered":"Strong Voter Turn Out Nov 6, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Update…<\/p>\n

(KCSi-T.V. News Nov 6, 2012) \u2014 Voter turn out for the November 6, 2012 elections was steady.<\/p>\n

Voters in Stutsman County were casting ballots at the Jamestown Civic Center.<\/p>\n

Voters in Medina, Kensal, and Pingree may also cast ballots in their towns.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

He expected about 5,000 voters to cast ballots.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

About 2,600 voters in Stutsman County took advantage of Early Voting.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

It was noted that there was a good turnout of college students.<\/p>\n

The polls close at 7-p.m.<\/p>\n

\u00a0About 75 people lined up outside the Bismarck Civic Center early
\nTuesday.<\/p>\n

Twenty-six-year-old salesman Kurt Triplett was among them.
\nHe says worries about the economy brought him out to vote.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 The auditor of a northwest North Dakota
\noil boom town says a steady stream of voters is flocking to the
\npolls.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ray Auditor Kim Steffan says dozens of people made it to the
\npolls within an hour after they opened Tuesday.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Steffan says the town\u2019s population has jumped from 500 to more
\nthan 1,200 in the past four years because of the oil boom in the
\nregion.<\/p>\n

She says more longtime locals came to the polls Tuesday
\nmorning but she expects many of the new oil workers in town to vote
\nafter they get off work.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thousands of people have moved to North Dakota to work in the
\nstate\u2019s booming oil patch. And both Democrats and Republicans have
\nattempted to attract their votes.<\/p>\n

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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 North Dakota residents have broken a
\nrecord for early voting for the second straight presidential
\nelection.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 About 130,000 people had already voted in the state before
\npolling locations even opened at 7 a.m. Tuesday, smashing the
\nrecord set in 2008 by about 10,000 votes.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 About 90,000 of this year\u2019s early voters cast ballots by mail.
\nAnother 40,000 visited early voting precincts.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Historically, presidential elections draw far more voters than
\nmidterm elections. President Barack Obama did not carry heavily
\nRepublican North Dakota in 2008 and is not expected to this year.<\/p>\n

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\u3000BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 Many North Dakota candidates say they
\nwon\u2019t be campaigning Tuesday even though a state law that bars it
\nhas been put on hold.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A federal judge ruled last week that North Dakota\u2019s law against
\ncampaigning on Election Day cannot be enforced on Tuesday. In past
\nelections, the law has deterred candidates from buying Election Day
\nads and leaving up campaign signs in supporters\u2019 yards.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Democratic state Senate candidate John Grabinger, of Jamestown,
\nsays he\u2019ll still take the day off. Grabinger says that if
\ncandidates haven\u2019t made their mark yet, campaigning on Election Day
\nisn\u2019t going to help.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Along with state legislative races, voters will be deciding a
\nhigh-profile U.S. Senate race between Republican Rep. Rick Berg and
\nDemocrat Heidi Heitkamp, a U.S. House race, and the governor\u2019s
\nrace.<\/p>\n

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Update… (KCSi-T.V. News Nov 6, 2012) \u2014 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. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6817"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6912,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817\/revisions\/6912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}