Sunday, November 11, 2012
Supervisors chairman says group should look at long waiting times at polling spots, recommend ways to improve.
Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chair Sharon Bulova says she will recommend a commission to look ways to improve the county's efficiency on Election Day. Bulova says she was concerned about long lines, wait times and other voting issues. Voter turnout for the 2012 election in Fairfax County was 80.5 percent. In the last presidential election, the turnout was 78.7 percent (with 72,501 fewer registered voters than today) county officials said. Meanwhile, absentee voting in the county was down 2.7 percent from 2008. Lines and waits varied widely in Fairfax County. In Reston, reported waits varied from a minute to about 30 minutes at peak time in the morning. Bulova says she waited just 20 minutes at Villa precinct Tuesday morning at about…
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Voter turnout in the City of Falls Church eclipsed the 2008 numbers bringing out 87 percent of the registered voters.
For months John Lawrence has canvassed Northern Virginia for President Barack Obama’s grassroots campaign knocking on doors and making phone calls. Tuesday night, Lawrence, a Falls Church City Public Schools board member, celebrated Obama’s re-election with other area Democrats at a watch party at Mad Fox Brewing Company. “This means we can keep on the upward path President Obama has us on,” Lawrence said. “I think what he is going to do is focus on foreign policy in this term.” Local Democrats were excited to hear that City of Falls Church voters turned out to the polls in record breaking numbers. In 2008, 82.8 percent of the city’s registered voters went to the polls. This year, a little more than 87 percent of the city’s registered …
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See the results from the three precincts.
David Bjerke wanted to eclipse the number of voters that turned out in 2008 in the City of Falls Church. That year, a little more than 82 percent cast ballots at the polls. When the polls closed Tuesday night, Bjerke, general registrar for the city, said a little more than 87 percent of the city’s registered voters had cast ballots. He said 77 percent of the voters cast their ballots on Tuesday at the city’s three precincts. “That’s the number I want,” Bjerke said pointing to a plaque in the office commemorating the percentage of 2008 voters that made it to the polls. In all, 7,298 of the 9403 registered voters in the city cast ballots in the general election. Bjerke said most of the people voted Democrat.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
A look at the day around Northern Virginia and in Richmond.
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Voters across Northern Virginia headed to the polls Tuesday and Patch was there to capture every moment. After the polls closed, supporters gathered across the area to await results. Supporters of Tim Kaine and George Allen gathered Tuesday night in Richmond, along with many volunteers from the state's Barack Obama and Mitt Romney offices. Did you take photos today? Upload them here! Otherwise click through the gallery in the media player above to see what we captured.
Voters in the City of Falls Church inch close to eclipsing number of people who went to the polls in 2008.
Monia Chehata made it to the Falls Church Community Center – where the Ward 3 polling location is – just after 6 p.m. Tuesday after a flight from Tunisia. Chehata was in Tunisia handling family business and tried to get cast an absentee ballot with the United States Embassy there but ran into some issues. The alternative, fly back to the U.S. and vote in person. To accomplish that, she left there at 1 a.m. EST, had her flight to France delayed an hour and made a connection there into Dulles International Airport at 4:20 p.m. After going through customs at the airport, she made it to Falls Church just after 6 p.m. “I wanted to make sure I was here,” she said. “I was scared because my flight was an hour late.” With the polls now closed in …
City saw 3,744 of the active 8,381 registered voters by 8:50 a.m.
By noon Tuesday, 63 percent of the City of Falls Church registered voters had cast their ballots. David Bjerke, general registrar for the city, said he’s not sure if there will be a surge of voters come to the polls before they close at 7 p.m. “We had 82 percent turnout four years ago,” said Bjerke who reported 5,318 people have voted in the city. Ward 1 reported 1,145 voters had gone to the polls by noon, 917 had gone to Ward 2 and 1,107 had cast ballots at Ward 3, he said. 9:59 a.m.: Robert Foster moved to the City of Falls Church about a year ago from California when his job relocated and voted in Virginia for the first time in his life. Tuesday morning, Foster joined dozens of others who voted in the city. Foster, a government …
The bonds passed with majorities of about 70 percent or more.
Fairfax County residents voted to approve all four bond referenda on the Tuesday's ballot by wide margins. Final unofficials results from the Virginia State Board of Elections show that about 70 percent of county voters approved of a $25 million bond that will go towards the construction of a new library in Reston and the renovations of three more within the county. More than 72 percent of voted approved of a $75 million bond that will used to fund widespread improvements to a number of county parks. Nearly 75 percent of county voters also said "yes" to a $55 million public safety bond that will fund new facilities for the county's fire department and renovations in the county courthouse. And about 78 percent of voters approved of a $30 …
Patch will bring you updates throughout Election Day as two former Virginia governors face off for an open Senate seat.
The U.S. Senate race in Virginia lived up to its reputation going into Tuesday's election, as being a tight race between two former governors. Final unofficial results around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday showed Tim Kaine with 51.89 percent of the state vote to Republican challenger George Allen's 47.92 percent of the vote across Virginia. Kaine won by comfortable margins in Northern Virginia jurisdictions, defeating Allen 71.40 percent to 28.42 percent in Falls Church; 60.53 percent to 39.01 percent in Fairfax County; and 65.83 to 33.86 percent in Arlington County, according to the State Board of Elections. As of 1:33 a.m. Wednesday, all precincts in the state had reported their results. Update 11:21 p.m.: Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell congratulated …
Incumbent representing state's 8th Congressional District defeats Republican Patrick Murray, Independent Jason Howell and Independent Green Party's Janet Murphy in Tuesday's race.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Moran secured another term in office, soundly defeating Patrick Murray, Jason Howell and Janet Murphy in the 8th Congressional District. "Tonight was a vindication of the President's efforts to get our country back on track after the worst recession in our nation's history," Moran said in a statement released late Tuesday night. "Tim Kaine will be our next Senator, a good, decent man who will serve the commonwealth with great distinction. Our nation faces major challenges that demand solutions. We owe it to the American people to come together and work toward reaching the kind of compromise necessary to get the country again moving forward." This is the second consecutive time Moran has defeated Murray. Moran will…
Changes to eminent domain and veto session scheduling pass by wide margins.
Virginia residents voted to pass two amendments to the Virginia Constitution when they went out to the polls Tuesday. About 75 percent of voters, more than 2.3 million people, voted "yes" to amending the state's eminent domain policies. The measure will prohibit local governments from using eminent domain for economic development and job creation. The measure was a bit less popular in localities such as Fairfax County, where 62 percent of voters decided to pass the amendment. Question 2, which will allow the General Assembly to postpone its veto session in the event of scheduling conflicts of religious holidays, was much more popular. About 82 percent of voters, or 2.6 million people, said yes to the amendment. Update (12:05 a.m. Nov. 7, …
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10:37 am on Friday, November 9, 2012
Are you saying Fairfax County can not wait to build new firehouses and libraries because of the fear that future interest rates will be higher? If so, that must assume that the economy will remain stagnant and our ability to pay future higher rates will be no better (or worse) than today. Where is the County justification for this dire need for immediate spending? This falls in the category of a… more ›