Live Election Results: Virginia Primaries

[George II]

Source: NY Times

Live Election Results: Virginia Primaries
BY THE NEW YORK TIMES LIVE 9:32:39 PM ET

Ralph S. Northam, the current lieutenant governor has won the Democratic primary to replace Gov. Terry McAuliffe. He defeated Tom Perriello, a former congressman who counts Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren as big-name backers.

On the Republican side, Ed Gillespie, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, had been the favorite before polls closed.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/virginia-primary-elections

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Almost a runaway:

Governor Democratic Primary
CANDIDATE VOTE PCT.
Ralph Northam 270,873 55.4%
Tom Perriello 218,124 44.6%
94% reporting (2,420 of 2,561 precincts)

[underpants]

1. Damn only 2,700 votes between Gillespie and Stewart

Gillespie should have won this going away.

Lots of anti-Gillespie ads on the local RW talk radio powerhouse station.

[rurallib]

2. go Stewart - he is fucking crazy

[helpisontheway]

4. I guess that answers my question..lol nt

[kyburbonkid]

6. Thats what I said about Bevin

And Trump...

May not be the thing to wish for.

[rurallib]

16. I know - fucking crazy has quite a following in this country

[helpisontheway]

3. Who has a better shot to win in November? Gillespie? Nt

[underpants]

5. Yes Gillespie.

Tons of establishment RNC and dark money. He barely lost to Mark Warner in 2014.

[bpj62]

7. Corey Stewart

I have been telling people to watch out for Corey Stewart. He ran Trumps campaign in Virginia until he was fired for reasons that were never explained. He runs on a anti immigration, cut taxes keep our monuments platform. He has the Trump playbook down pat.

[StevieM]

8. We had two great candidates. Either one would have been a fabulous nominee.

Now let's get together and win the general election in November.

And let's make sure the Russians don't alter the results.

[LenaBaby61]

9. "And let's make sure the Russians don't alter the results."

Your above statement is the $64 million dollar question.

HOW?

[StevieM]

10. Your question is the 64 million dollar question.

And I don't have the answer.

[sandensea]

13. It's certainly possible.

Ballots in Virginia are fill-in the bubble; but each ballot is optically scanned, and the tabulation itself is done electronically on a dinky laptop a high-schooler could probably hack.

Recounts, moreover, have to be approved by the House of Delegates - which is under staunch, gun-toting, inbred Teabag control at the moment.

They DO have the paper ballots in case irregularities are detected. But would they be?

[politicat]

17. It's not the size of the laptop, it's the access.

The machine that's absolutely safest from hacking is the machine that never touches a network. A laptop is ideal for that, because if wifi is disabled and it's not (Ethernet) cabled, it's off-grid. A scantron-type tabulator doesn't require a lot of processing power. A modern phone has enough processor to run a scanner.

The safest machine I could build with off the shelf parts to run an open source, air-gapped, optical scanner would run about 9" w x 7" h x 3"d, for about $150 - raspberry Pi 3, disabled wifi, running a paranoid Linux install, with a 9"x7" touch screen. Totally open source (so other people can verify the code and construction), totally locked down.

We have got to stop thinking that bigger is more secure. For tabulation, we want small and single purpose - there's no reason that machine should have a browser, email client, music player, or anything except the tabulation scanner software.

[BainsBane]

11. Maybe opposing abortion rights isn't

a winning position for Democrats.

[QC]

12. Is it true that Northam voted for George W Bush twice?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/3/2/1639550/-Virginia-Dem-Gov-Candidate-Northam-Voted-for-George-W-Bush-Twice

That's the claim that going around. Does anyone have more info about this?

[PunkinPi]

15. Yes, he did.

NYT article linked to from your dkos:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/26/us/virginia-governor-trump-northam-perriello.html?_r=1

<snip>But the lieutenant governor has blemishes of his own in a Democratic primary race. He conceded that he had voted for George W. Bush in each of his presidential campaigns, explaining that he was an apolitical doctor at the time and now viewed his decision as “wrong.”</snip>


HuffPo article from Feb 2017 (also referencing the NYT article):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/democratic-candidate-for-virginia-governor-says-he-voted-for-george-w-bush-twice_us_58b48eb9e4b0780bac2c68d5

<snip from HP link> Northam’s full statement on his votes for Bush:

Ever since I first ran for public office, I have fought for my values: commonsense gun reforms, protecting our environment, defending women’s access to reproductive health care, fighting for equal rights for the LGBT community, and economic opportunity for all Virginians.

At the time, I didn’t pay much attention to politics. Knowing what I know now, I was wrong and would have voted differently. I became politically engaged after becoming fed up with insurance companies affecting my patients and learning my Republican senator said a child with disabilities was possessed by “demons,” which deeply offended me as a father and a doctor.

So, I decided to run for office on the issues I cared about: fixing our healthcare system and cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay. I stood up for implementing commonsense gun reforms, ensuring the LGBT community was given equal rights, and defending women’s access to reproductive health care.

If there is a lesson Democrats should take away from 2016, it’s that voters sometimes vote against their values. Usually, they are doing it because they aren’t aware that they actually share the same values as the Democratic party. As someone who made that realization when I became engaged, there is no better person to reach these people than me.</snip>

[LexVegas]

14. Is it true that Perriello supported anti choice legislation while in the House?

Thank goodness we didnt go with him in my Commonwealth.

[Cha]

18. Thank you, George!