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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
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Every Napa County vote in the Feb. 5 presidential primary ballot has now been tallied, and the results differ little from the numbers released back on election day.

Napa County Registrar of Voters John Tuteur announced Monday that his office has certified the election results.
The final numbers:

• In the Democratic Party primary, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., won 50 percent of the vote. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., who since Super Tuesday has taken the lead for the nomination, won 42 percent of the vote. When the county elections office closed on Super Tuesday, with about 14,000 ballots yet to count, Clinton had 51 percent of the vote.
• In the Republican Party primary, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., received 50 percent of the vote, though the election night tally was 49 percent. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, who dropped out of the race shortly after Super Tuesday, earned 27 percent of the vote, while former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee won 9 percent.

• As the vote counting wore on, the Napa Valley College proposal for a $178 million bond fared a little better, but never well enough to pass. Measure L got support from 52 of the voters, but needed 55 percent. The measure had the support of 51 percent of voters when the Elections Office shut down on election night.
• Measure K, the initiative to allow expansion of the business at Stanly Lane Marketplace, won with 57 percent of the vote.

In a prepared statement, Tuteur praised citizens for a good turnout.

“I am pleased that once again Napa County voters turned out in greater numbers than the statewide average, with 67 percent of registered voters casting ballots. Even more impressive was the turnout by vote-by-mail voters, where approximately 76 percent of voters cast ballots. Polling place voters turned out at a significantly lower rate, with approximately 47 percent casting ballots.”

Tuteur said it required several days to count provisional and mail-in ballots that arrived shortly before election day, as well as to review ballots and duplicate those that could not be read by optical scanners.

In addition, the still-undecided outcome of the race between Obama and Clinton in California’s First Congressional District required a hand count of more than 1,000 Democratic ballots.

Tuteur said his office is already gearing up for the June 3 election.

“We are creating Voter Assistance Centers in Calistoga, Saint Helena, Yountville and American Canyon to assist vote-by-mail voters prior to Election Day,” Tuteur commented. “We had too many vote-by-mail voters turning up at our polling places, which led to problems for both voters and poll workers. Our target is to have our vote by mail voters completely comfortable with voting by mail prior to the Nov. 4, 2008, Presidential General Election, when turnout will be very high.”

A precinct-by-precinct statement of vote for the Democratic and Republican primaries and for Measures L and K is posted on the Napa County Web site at www.co.napa.ca.us. The complete statement of vote for all contests is available at the Election Division at 900 Coombs St., Suite 256, in Napa.
5 comment(s)

musikluvr wrote on Feb 26, 2008 12:14 PM:

" It takes 21 days to count votes? Why? "

MikeK wrote on Feb 26, 2008 5:55 PM:

" Because if it took them only 20 days, I'm sure *someone* would complain they didn't do a thorough job. "

musikluvr wrote on Feb 26, 2008 7:53 PM:

" Well if MikeK had anything to do with it we would have accounting from the school systems to verify the vote. Its like my friend who is a substitute teacher. She "teaches" from 10 to 2 and gets an hour for lunch then gets paid $140. I think she is applying to be a vote counter on her time off from scamming as a "teacher". "

Kevin Eggers wrote on Feb 27, 2008 12:01 AM:

" Bill, I was wondering how many votes Ron Paul received. "

MikeK wrote on Feb 27, 2008 8:14 AM:

" "Well if MikeK had anything to do with it we would have accounting from the school systems to verify the vote."

Wow. That makes no sense at all. "

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