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Democratic Registrar of Voters Shannel Evans helping to register voters on Election Day.
New Haven already knew that Ned Lamont crushed Bob Stefanowski in the city in the Nov. 6 gubernatorial election. Now people can find out just how many votes those candidates— and all other candidates on the ballot that day — received in each polling district, broken down by machine votes, absentee votes, and same-day-registration votes.
That’s because on Wednesday night, Democratic Registrar of Voters completed a tally sheet with all those details and submitted it to the city clerk’s office.
State law requires that to happen within three weeks of an election.
This year a series of problems — from understaffed polling places to machine breakdowns to an accidental failure to press “send” on a computer transmission, to mishaps the nature of which remain unclear — turned New Haven’s election process into a mess, with results from the city coming in to the state long after all other 168 municipalities had reported theirs. (Click here to read a full story about that.)
The submission of the tally sheet Wednesday night marks the final task the city needed to complete.
Click here to call up an electronic version of the tally spreadsheet for the gubernatorial, U.S. Senate and Congressional, and state legislative elections, provided to the Independent by Democratic Registrar of Voters Shannel Evans.
The tally shows that 34,392 of the city’s 58,479 registered voters — or 58.81 percent — cast ballots in the gubernatorial election. Downtown’s Ward 7 attracted the most voters, followed closely by Westville’s Ward 25.
For a simpler-to-read document showing citywide totals (but not ward breakdowns) for all races, including those for statewide constitutional offices and ballot questions, click here to view the final eight-page Head Moderator’s Return document submitted two days after election to the Secretary of the State’s Office. The return showed Lamont winning 27,900 votes in the city (on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines) versus for 4,622 for Stefanowski, who ran on the Republican and Independent Party lines.
Two things, entirely irrelevant to the subject of the article. First, to comment, I'm told I need to agree to a comment policy that is nowhere linked. So, sure, I agree, but I have no idea what it is. I'm told before, during and after that I must comply, but...
Second, I really just wanted to suggest not linking to the words "click here", because people understand the nature of links now and it's a much better practice to rephrase and link to something more descriptive. For example, instead of "Click here to call up an electronic version of the tally spreadsheet ", you could offer substantive text and link to the "electronic version of the tally spreadsheet" part of the sentence.
"The electronic version of the tally spreadsheet..." is this, that and the other thing.
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