Saturday, November 10, 2012
Voter turnout around 62 percent, and a 92-year-old candidate who stubbornly walks to the polls in Prince George's County headlines this week.
Police: $6K of Marijuana Found in Bowie Shed Police were responding to a breaking and entering call on Antler Court South when they made the discovery. Norman Patrick McClain, 22, is facing 12 separate charges stemming from the discovery. Maryland's 92-Year-Old Green Party Nominee Walks to Polls Defying 12 Knee Operations Maryland's 92-year-old Green Party nominee for Congress, Bob Auerbach, stood outside the Greenbelt Community Center polling station on Election Day passing out literature in temperatures barely above freezing. Despite 12 operations on his left knee, a right eye that is 95 percent blind, hearing aids in both ears and a metal plate in his left hip, he walked to the polling station, turning down an offer for a ride from a …
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Fewer residents cast ballots this year than did four years ago, according to unofficial totals.
Voter turnout in Prince George's County broke 60 percent in Tuesday's general election but was down significantly from four years ago, according to unofficial figures released by the county's board of elections. With 231 of 234 precincts reporting, returns showed that 354,663 votes had been cast in Prince George's—equal to just over 62 percent of the county's 568,600 registered voters. That tally does not include absentee or provisional ballots, which are set be tabulated by mid-November. In the 2008 general election, a total of 378,103 votes were cast by a pool of 497,421 registered voters in the county—good for 76 pecent turnout, according to the Maryland State Board of Elections. The decline echoes state and national participation …
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Election 2012 officials provide voter turnout numbers since 4 p.m. in Howard County.
By 4 p.m. Tuesday nearly 78,000 Howard County voters had cast a ballot, according to the Howard County Board of Elections, and that was without numbers from several precincts that hadn’t yet reported their totals. With four hours to go, about 42 percent of registered voters had cast a ballot in Tuesday’s General Election in Howard County. Sign up for the Ellicott City Patch newsletter here and follow us on Facebook and Twitter for instant news updates and community conversations. Board of Elections Director Guy Mickley said Tuesday evening that seven precincts had not yet reported their turnout numbers, but as of the 4 p.m. count, 77,915 Howard County voters had been to the polls. “That’s just in the polls today,” he said; about 16 …
