The attorney general race is getting most of the attention on the morning after Vermont’s 2012 primary, but as Paul Heintz wrote about in his Fair Game column on August 8, there were plenty of other interesting races dotting the state’s voting landscape. Here’s a roundup of some other notable results:
Governor – Progressive
First, the statewide races: Martha Abbott was the only announced candidate for governor in the Progressive Party primary, and it was expected that she would drop out of the race so as not to siphon away too many left-wing votes from Gov. Peter Shumlin. But some of Shumlin’s most vehement detractors mounted a write-in campaign to nominate activist Annette Smith for the Progs.
See the rest of the results — with helpful charts and graphs — on Off Message.
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Unbelivable that after Zuckerman siphoned extra cash from Vermonters committing fraud over travel time, room and board etc nearly 8000 people still voted for him… I guess that’s how Kiss got re-elected, well that and IRV.
Your figures on the race between Martha Abbott and Annette Smith need to be updated. Results from quite a few towns have still at this moment not been reported on the Sec. of State web site. From what we can tell from calling 10 or so of them, the tally is extremely close: 308 Annette Smith vs 304 Martha Abbott. Yes it is not clear that every single “write-in” is a vote for Smith. But there are also as yet a number of towns where the write-in voters votes were not reported by the town. It will also be interesting to count up the number of Annette Smith votes written in on the Dem ballot by those who wanted to vote in the AG race.
JCarter, technically what Zuckerman (and many other lawmakers) do/did by taking mileage reimbursement isn’t “fraud.” It’s allowed under the rules of the Leg. The real question, I think, is whether it’s ethical to take it.
RIght, and he raised the very legitimate question of who can really be a legislator in VT considering the economic realities of the time/money ratio…I think his overall point from a few years ago had to do with balancing that ethical question against the reality of 5 months of work without adequate monetary compensation and how that practice (of not taking full reimbursements) actually dissuades many people from considering serving in the legislature because they need to collect a paycheck Jan-May.
Anybody know how many Progressive Party ballots get printed? Is it worth it for the miniscule Prog turnout?