Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Barrington students and staff are being urged to register to vote in the next election at a drive in the high school cafeteria today, April 3.
Students and staff at Barrington High School are being asked to register to vote today in the cafeteria. Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis is running the voter-registration drive from 10:45 am to 12:15 pm. It is being coordinated through Deputy Town Clerk Merrie DeSisto of the Barrington Board of Canvassers and in partnership with the state Board of Elections and school administrators. "Young people who register to vote are more likely to become engaged and effective citizens of Rhode Island," said Mollis. "Some of these individuals will become our next generation of leaders. Now is the time to reach out to them." To register to vote, students must be 18 years old by Nov. 4, 2014, a resident of Rhode Island and a U.S. citizen. Students …
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Kilmartin will swear in the Barrington Town Council, School Committee and Moderator at the organizational meeting on Monday evening, Dec. 3.
One new town councilor and one new school committee member will be among the Barrington officials sworn in on Monday night, Dec. 3, at the Town Council organizational meeting in Town Hall. The meeting starts at 8 pm in the Council Chamber. Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Kilmartin will swear in the town officials. Democrat Ann Strong, a former member of the Planning Board, will join Democrats June Speakman, the council president; Kate Weymouth, and Cynthia Coyne and Republican Bill DeWitt on the council. Strong replaces Democrat Jeff Brenner, who did not seek re-election. Democrat Paula Dominguez will replace Republican Christopher Ramsden on the School Committee, which will shift the power on the school board back to the Democrats. …
Thursday, November 8, 2012
The Rhode Island Board of Elections completed the counting of 926 absentee ballots and Ann Strong was officially elected to the Barrington Town Council today.
It’s official! Ann Strong is a member of the Barrington Town Council. Absentee ballots counted over the past two days by the RI Board of Elections did not change the outcome of Tuesday’s tally. The Democrat led by 159 votes over Republican Margaret Kane on Tuesday night. She won by 141 votes after the 926 absentee ballots in Barrington were counted and posted today at 4 pm. “I’m glad the wait is over,” Strong said. “Obviously, I’m very happy the way it turned out.” Strong has been a member of the Conservation Commission and, most recently, a member of the Planning Board. “I will miss the Planning Board,” she said. “But I can’t wait to start work on the Town Council. I’m really looking forward to it. I hope I can do some good.”
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
The RI Board of Elections will not complete and post the final vote totals from Tuesday's election, including absentee ballots, until Thursday at 4 pm; one Barrington race still in doubt.
Final official vote totals will not be available and posted by the RI Board of Elections until Thursday at 4 pm, leaving in some doubt the official results of Tuesday’s elections for at least another day. Barrington has one race where the margin between two candidates – Ann Strong and Margaret Kane – is less than the number of absentee ballots, 926. Strong leads by 159 votes and is presumed to be the winner of the final Town Council seat based on Tuesday’s vote totals without the absentee ballots. The Board of Elections was to have tabulated all absentee ballots from all cities and towns in Rhode Island on Wednesday and post the final results by 4 pm. It didn’t happen. Barrington Town Clerk Linda James said her office was told late …
Only one Republican got an election win Tuesday night: School Committee Chairman Patrick Guida, who now finds himself in the minority again on that board.
“We got skunked.” Steve Primiano, chairman of the Barrington Republican Town Committee, summed up his party’s showing in Tuesday’s election with those three words. “Obviously, I’m disappointed,” Primiano said while standing in a rather somber American Legion Hall filled with Republicans expecting a much better showing. “I really thought we would make inroads on the Town Council because of issues like revaluation and affordable housing,” he said. “I guess I’m most disappointed by the Town Council races.” Margaret Kane still had an outside shot at a seat on the council because she trailed Ann Strong, a Democrat, by 159 votes with 926 absentee ballots apparently not to be counted until today by the Board of Elections. But mail ballots tend to…
Rhode Island voters favor Democrats in election.
It was a good night for Democrats Tuesday in Rhode Island. In Rhode Island’s 1st Congressional District David Cicilline was able to win a second term against a tough race fought against Republican Brendan Doherty. The former head of the Rhode Island State Police strongly criticized Cicilline during the course of the campaign over his final leadership of the city of Providence when he was mayor for eight before heading to Washington two years ago. In the 2nd Congressional District James Langevin was able to win a seventh term over Republican Michael Riley. Riley reportedly lent his campaign more than $600,000. Langevin cited as accomplishments his work to maintain submarine production at Electric Boat and efforts to strengthen job training …
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
President Obama defeated Republican Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election.
President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden were re-elected Tuesday night, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney and his vice-presidential running mate Rep. Paul Ryan. NBC News called the presidential election for Obama around 11:15 EST. The president sent a message on Twitter at 10:14 saying simply, "This happened because of you. Thank you." The Obama campaign won the most expensive presidential race ever, with both parties raising about $2.6 billion. The race was filled with negative campaigning on both sides, from President Obama attacking Romney’s business experience with Bain Capital to Romney lambasting Obama’s handling of the economy. The race tightened during the final months of the campaign, with gaffes and surges …
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Check back at your local Patch all day for live election updates. In the race for President of the United States, influential Rhode Island political insiders have weighed in regarding who has run the better "ground game" in Rhode Island leading up to the election during our latest Red Rhody/Blue Rhody political survey. According to our results, Democratic influencers felt Obama has run a better ground campaign by a wide margin while a majority of Republican influencers surveyed said the ground campaign up to this point has been even. In 2008, Rhode Island voted Democratic with 296,571 voters casting ballots for the Obama-Biden team. Republican John McCain and Sarah Palin earned 165,391 votes. According to the Rhode Island Secretary of …
Voters in Rhode Island on Tuesday cast their ballot for Barack Obama, giving him the state's 4 Electoral votes.
Barack Obama won Rhode Island’s 4 electoral votes on Tuesday, defeating Republican Mitt Romney. The Wall Street Journal along with the Associated Press has called the race in Rhode Island declaring Obama the winner. In the 2008 presidential election, the state voted for the Democratic candidate, and since the 1990s has voted for the overall winner of the presidential race 3 out of 5 times. Romney and Obama did not campaign aggressively in Rhode Island. The state has typically been a Democratic stronghold in recent presidential elections. The economy was a key issue for many voters in the state.
Democratic candidates grab the majority on both the Town Council and the School Committee; both incumbent Democrats grab the House District 66 and 67 seats.
Democrats rule in Barrington. Democrats took the three seats up for grabs on the Town Council in Tuesday's election, with 926 emergency and mail ballots still to be counted: Incumbents June Speakman and Kate Weymouth and Planning Board member Ann Strong. Two Democrats took two of the three seats up for grabs on the School Committee: Incumbent Robert Shea Jr. and newcomer Paula Dominguez. Republican Patrick Guida took the other seat. And Barrington's incumbent Democratic legislators in Districts 66 and 67 won re-election: Joy Hearn and Jan Malik. "I am relieved and humbled," said Speakman about her re-election to the Town Council. "I think this validated our program. I am fired up and ready to move forward." She was especially excited about…
Lorraine F
9:27 am on Wednesday, April 3, 2013
I hope those future voters are given a quick tutorial on the link between high unemployment, and bad choices at the voting booth. more ›