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continued from previous page that when people don’t vote at all?” (A good number of Eurekans decided to leave her box uncolored.) “Because they know you’re going to win anyway,” Brady reassured her. (Plus, those boxes take forever to fill in with a ballpoint pen, amirite?) Brady confessed that she probably took longer than the 12 minutes allowed by the spot she parked in when she visited her polling place earlier in the day. The crowd slowly petered out. With the race seemingly too close to call as the 11 o’clock hour approached, Bonino paid his tab and got ready to leave. “Kennedy didn’t stay up late to see his election results either,” the candidate said in parting. “He went to bed an average citizen and woke up president. So I’m in good company.” In Wednesday morning’s wee-est hours, the county board of elections filed its final report. With all local precincts reporting, Atkins appeared to be squeaking toward a win — 3,935 boxes filled in for the incumbent (50.75 percent) to 3,727 for the challenger Bonino (48.07 percent), and just 35 votes for write-in candidate Charles Bean. Countywide, more than 7,000 votes remained to be counted, but it was unclear how many of them were left in Eureka. Barring a swap, Kennedy stands alone.
Newly elected city council member Shane Brinton cozies up next to his Mom, Susan Brinton (left), and Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap to watch election results trickle in. photo by Scottie lee meyers
Relaxed Reelection With no opponents, incumbents kick back in Arcata By Scottie Lee Meyers
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ellow, all of it: The soft lullaby music from the gypsyjazz quartet of strings, the red-bulbed lighting, the soft cushioned seats, the low key comfort food, the deep red wines and dark beers. Nerves didn’t need calming at the election gathering at the Arcata Playhouse Tuesday night. Palms were wet from the condensation of drinks, not clammy from nervous watching, waiting, counting.
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The mood perfectly matched the demeanor of Arcata’s three, newly reelected incumbent council members, Mayor Michael Winkler, Vice Mayor Shane Brinton and Susan Ornelas, who all ran unopposed. Their reelection was made easy after three would-be challengers failed to qualify for the ballot, unable to collect a mere 20 signatures from Arcata voters by the Aug. 10 deadline. You could say the incumbents cruised to victory on that August day.
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Humboldt results as of 1:19 a.m. and California results as of 5:25 a.m. Nov. 7.
WA 12
And the winner is whoever gets 270 electoral votes.
OR 7
Wednesday morning counts said that was Barack Obama.
Candidates
Humboldt Humboldt Statewide Statewide Votes % Votes %
Jill Stein Official Entry Form 1,816
3.89%
56,980
0.6%
Name: _____________ 33.54% Phone: _____________
26,334
0.3%
3,543,430
38.4%
Cheri Honkala OfferGRN expires 10/31/12 Thomas Hoefling 79 Robert Ornelas AIP Mitt Romney 15,653 Paul Ryan REP Gary Johnson 685 James P. Gray LIB Roseanne Barr 279 Cindy Sheehan PF Barack Obama 25,757 Joseph Biden DEM
0.17%
1.47%
96,489
1%
0.6%
36,183
0.4%
59.48%
5,475,911
59.3%
source: Humboldt county elections office and california secretary of state
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MT 3 ID 4
NV 6
AZ 11
MN 10
SD 3
WY 3 UT 6
CA 55
ME 4
ND 3
OK 7 TX 38 HI 4
ALASKA AND HAWAII NOT TO SCALE
MO 10
KS 6
NM 5
AK 3
IA 6
NE 5
CO 9
WI 10
AR 6 LA 8
NY 29
MI 16
IL 20
OH 18
IN 11
KY 8
PA 20 WV 5
VA 13 NC 15
TN 11
SC 9 MS 6
AL 9
GA 16
FL 29 sources: counts compiled by the journal from Humboldt county elections office, Huffington post, wasHingtonpost.com, electoral-vote.com
NH VT MA RI CT NJ DE MD DC
4 3 11 4 7 14 3 10 3