Southborough is arguably a blue town, at least there are more registered Democrats than there are Republicans, but the majority of registered voters in town don’t specify a party affiliation, and it’s those unaffiliated voters who pushed Southborough decidedly into the red yesterday. Read the full article → from A closer look at the election results
Things are heating up in the race to replace the late Ted Kennedy in the US Senate. The special election will be held next Tuesday, January 19. If you won’t be able to make it to the polls, but sure to pick up an absentee ballot by Friday. Read the full article → from Tomorrow is the last day to get an absentee ballot for the special election
Polls in Southborough will be open on Tuesday from 7:00 am to 8:00 pm for the primary election to fill the late Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat. Read the full article → from Polls open on Tuesday for primary election
Only 397 Southborough residents showed up to vote in Monday’s town election. That’s a 6% turnout. Ouch. It should come as no surprise that all the unopposed incumbents won their races. In the contested race for the two Southborough seats on the regional school committee, Susan Dargan and Kathleen Harragan won with 694 and 760 Read the full article → from Dismal turnout at the polls, Dargan and Harragan win
Before the election, I promised to provide voter turnout numbers for Southborough and surrounding towns. Turns out those numbers are hard to come by. According to the State Elections Division, results are not released until they are certified by the Governor’s Council. And since overseas ballots have an additional ten days to reach the local Read the full article → from Southborough voters came out in force
Last week I posted a list of candidates who will appear on ballots in Southborough on November 4th. Turns out I missed a couple of uncontested races. I’ve updated the list so it’s complete. Take a look. I also discovered some presidential candidates I didn’t know about. Baldwin? Barr? McKinney? Ring any bells? Presidential tickets Read the full article → from Who’s on the ballot, updated
I’m going to assume you know who the headliners are in the upcoming presidential election, but what about the state and regional contests? That’s a bit murkier, isn’t it? It gets even more difficult when you consider Southborough has three precincts that cross state congressional districts. So let me help break it down for you. Read the full article → from Two weeks until election day, do you know who’s on the ballot?