See how your precinct voted in Tuesday's general election.
The election results from JP held few surprises: The neighborhood went for all the incumbent Democrats. There were three ballot questions this election. And JP bucked the state trend by voting in favor of physician-assisted suicide. We also voted in favor of medical marijuana by a higher margin than the rest of Massachusetts. If you're interested in how this all played out at the precinct level, please visit this Google Doc spreadsheet. The formatting would be a bit of nightmare if I tried to present it directly in this space. I've also attached the various charts as images -- but be warned they might be too small to read. Your best best is to visit the Google Doc spreadsheet. If you're not sure what precinct you are in, you can jog your …
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Jamaica Plain voted more strongly in favor of physician assisted suicide and medical marijuana than the state as a whole.
While state-wide the ballot measure to allow physician assisted suicide appears to have failed, JP voters would have approved it. State-wide the numbers ran about 51-49 for and against Ballot Question 2. But in JP, support for what supporters call "death with dignity" reached 63 percent. On the medical marijuana front, more JP residents just said yes than in the rest of the Bay State. State-wide the measure passed with about 63 percent in favor. Jamaica Plain said yes at a 79 percent clip.
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Check back throughout the day for election coverage, photos, and local election results from Jamaica Plain.
Wednesday, 12:33 p.m. — We've just gotten in the JP totals, which have been added to the table below. 11:35 p.m. — It's four more years for President Barack Obama. 11:13 p.m. — Here are the state-wide results for the three ballot questions: Right to repair passed, assisted suicide was too close to call and medical marijuana passed. 9:55 p.m. — Democrat Elizabeth Warren, who stopped by JP today, has won the U.S. Senate seat from incumbent Republican Scott Brown. 8:21 p.m. — President Barack Obama, as expected, has won Massachusetts. 7:00 p.m. — We're live-Tweeting from the Mitt Romney party at the Boston Convention and Expo Center. 5:35 p.m. — Okay, JP neighbors, I'll soon be off to Newton for a Patch assignment. I'll be covering the 4th …
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2:46 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Nice, Gretchen; no bake sale moms at the polling place on Green Street, alas. BYO warm, caloric sustenance. more ›
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 …
9:16 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012
Quasimodo, You must be illiterate not to know what she meant ? Ignorance is truly Bliss is it not Quasimodo ? more ›
Democrat Elizabeth Warren beat incumbent candidate Scott Brown in the Massachusetts U.S. Senate race.
Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren has beaten incumbent Republican candidate Scott Brown for a seat on the U.S. Senate, according to the Associated Press. Warren is won by a margin of eight percentage points, 54 percent to 46 percent, making her the first female senator elected in Massachusetts. An estatic Warren addressed a crowd of hundreds of excited supporters at the Copley Fairmont Plaza hotel in Boston on Tuesday night. "We did what everyone thought was impossible," she said. "We taught a scrappy, first-time candidate how to win." "You took on the powerful Wall Street banks and let them know that you want a Senator out there fighting for the middle class all of the time," she said. "And despite the odds, you elected the first …
10:16 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012
Typical liberal - always having to tell people how they should live their lives. more ›
A majority of voters in Massachusetts on Tuesday cast their ballot for Barack Obama, giving him the state's 11 Electoral votes.
Barack Obama won Massachusetts' 11 electoral votes on Tuesday, defeating Republican Mitt Romney. 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. Shortly after 8 p.m., the AP called Massachusetts for Obama, along with with six other east coast states and the District of Columbia. Romney and Obama did not campaign aggressively in Massachusetts. The state has typically been a Democratic stronghold in recent presidential elections. The economy was a key issue for many voters in the state, as was the Affordable Care Act, colloquially known as Obamacare. Romney cast his ballot this morning in his hometown of Belmont, …
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5:39 am on Saturday, November 10, 2012
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The leader of Senator Scott Brown's ground operation in JP, Gina Sierra-Nova, cited "cheating and fraud" going on at several Dorchester polling places.
The leader of Senator Scott Brown's office in Jamaica Plain says she and other observers have seen "cheating and fraud" at several Dorchester polls. "There's an abundance of unregistered voters," Gina Sierra-Nova said in a phone interview with JP Patch. "I can't believe it." Sierra-Nova said unregistered voters were filling out affidavits and showing licenses to cast provisional ballots at the fire house polling station at 7 Parish St. and Pasciucco Apartments on Bowdoin Street in Dorchester. Those polls are for Ward 15, Precincts 2, 3 and 4. That's actually the legal process for voters whose names aren't on the rolls in Boston, not fraud. But Sierra-Nova said she expects the required follow-up on the affidavits, in which the Boston …
15.2 percent of registered Boston voters had cast ballots as of 9 a.m.
[Editor's note: This is a press release from the Boston Elections Department.] The Boston Elections Department Tuesday morning announced that, as of 9 a.m., 58,854 ballots had been cast in polling locations across the city. The number represents 15.2 percent of the City’s registered voters. The City of Boston has more than the number of ballots required to satisfy each of the 387,142 registered voters eligible to participate. Since September’s primary elections, the City has registered an additional 28,930 voters. Registered Democratic voters total 211,316; Republican voters total 25,903; unenrolled voters total 147,858; and Green-Rainbow and other designations total 2,065. During the 2008 presidential election, 236,525 ballots were cast …
Democratic Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren stopped by her campaign's JP headquarters briefly on Election Day.
Elizabeth Warren has been no stranger to JP during the long campaign. So it made a certain amount of sense that the Democratic Senate hopeful also stopped by on Election Day itself. The Cambridge law professor and consumer advocate visited the "JP for Warren" headquarters at 405 Centre St. Here are some photos taken by Warren volunteers. If you have others, please add them by clicking the "Upload photos and videos" button.
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Due to anticipated crowds, Boston officials are asking residents to vote during "off peak" times during the day, if possible.
City officials said to expect long lines on Tuesday's election day in Boston for a possible "record" turnout. "Lines are always longest first thing in the morning and after 4 p.m., so if voters' schedules allow, they should vote during non-peak hours," said Emilee Ellison, a spokesperson for the city of Boston. Non-peak hours are traditionally from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Polls open at 7 a.m. and will stay open until 8 p.m. Polls will remain open to all residents in line by 8 p.m. Residents can check their voter current status on the city's website before they show up, as well. Officials also said they were encouraging voters to read up on the three ballot questions ahead of time. Question 1 asks voters whether they support right to repair, …
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Chris Helms
1:27 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012
Hi Dedubs, the City of Boston figures do indicate Capuano is now the representative for Ward 19, Precinct 7 in the new 7th Congressional District. The 7th and 8th shuffled precincts as a result of the 2010 Census, so maybe that explains it? 19-7 is definitely part of the new 7th and Capuano should have been on the Ward 19, Precinct 7 ballot. Here's what your ballot was supposed to have looked … more ›