At the American Legion hall, moderator Vernon Koch looked at the clock strike 8 and declared, "The polls are closed."
He fed an Accu-Vote Ender Card into the automatic scanner that had registered ballots all day, pushed the yes and no buttons at the same time, and watched a printout spit out within seconds.
At the 79B precinct, Democratic mayoral challenger Art Ward racked up 236 votes to the 213 for the party's endorsed candidate, Ellen Zoppo.
Over at the Elks Club, where I am, the numers are in for nearly every precinct.
Ward won them all, it appears, except for a 31-31 tie in the 22nd District at Stafford School.
It appears Ward won by at least a couple of hundred votes, though nobody's conceding.
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Contact Steve Collins at scollins@bristolpress.com
4 comments:
Well I hope the voters of Bristol are happy!! You just elected someone who has made lots of promises that he will need to fulfill. The "good ol boy" network is alive and well here. Such a shame. Ellen may have been rough and tough but she held people accountable!!!!!! No "I'll help you, you help me" garbage. Unfortunately, The Bristol Press, as usual, never really got all the facts behind the story and people were pursuaded by the slant of the Press.
The oldest tactic in politics is to blame the media. It's almost never the reason -- and it certainly wasn't the cause of this result. Most of the people who voted know both candidates. What they read mattered only a little.
How can you blame Steve Collins for Ellen's negative campaign mailers?
The padding of the pension article was not Steve Collins going out of his way to write the story, it was a release froM ellen, so how did Steve slant the election to Artie?
I don't think the first poster was mentioning any one story in particular.
There was no mention of the pension article.
I would like to make a comment though, that I do believe that reporters have a responsibility to make sure to gather and present all of the informaiton prior to publishing a story either online or in print.
I do believe that an awful lot of stories had incredible headlines, without all the informaiton being available in the story.
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