The following is a link to the unofficial results for yesterday's election including all the Town Meeting representative races. The link is to the town website.
http://www.town.dartmouth.ma.us/Pages/DartmouthMA_News/0155B7B6-000F8513
Some Town Meeting representatives not on the ballot may have been elected by write in ...
... and those are not known yet. Any write in candidates that resulted in a tie (e.g. 1 vote) will be decided by a poll of all the elected members in that precinct.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Unofficial results at town website
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Bill, Are precinct by precinct totals available for the Select Board and School Committee races?
Congratulations to the winners and to all those who did not prevail in Tuesday's election. It's not easy putting your name on the ballot. I feel especially badly for Doug Roscoe, who campaigned hard but whose vote total did not reflect that effort. I have a feeling we'll see Doug again.
I HOPE WE'LL SEE DOUG AGAIN! I THOUGHT HE HAD SOME GREAT IDEAS! I GUESS IT WAS TOO FOR RADICAL FOR THE SCHOOLS.
I hope the new Select Board continues to work well together.
i hope the new Select Board remembers it is the Select Board!!
Let us all look at this election for what it truly reveals, most obvious conclusion is 23% of town registered voters care about electing local town officials. This indicates to me, that 77% of town voters don't care, don't want to be involved, or care less who is elected. Anyone with any ounce of brain matter can do the analysts and come to the conclusion that the 23% are made up of voters who have a direct concern or a monetary impact, as it relates to whom they want in positions of favors. I will concede that some, but not all people who voted want good solid government leaders, but for the most part the ones who voted are searching for some type of reward(s). To all the elected town officials, understand this one conclusion, for sure you are Representative of 23% of the town voters. The remaining 77% don't care about you, or who is running this town. The this magic world of computers, it is simple to maintain the names, addresses, and the number of townies who vote in local elections. Just for the heck of doing something, in the next election I plan on running a campaign from the seat of my computer. You can be certain that all town employee's are active local town election voters and they all vote, including family and Friends. The most important organisations to join is the Dartmouth Youth Athletic Association, the Dartmouth high school marching band association, and a suporter of the senior citizens
And I would be willing to bet that many town employees are also Town Meeting members, not necessarily out of genuine sincerity to do what is right for the town, but to protect their interests and maybe even get a little more, as well.
Must be tough living with so much anger.
Must be tough living with the sole focus of emptying the taxpayers pockets as quickly as possible.
No, no, no, this is not anger, this is fact.Town employee's who are town voters will vote for the selectman who delivers the goods. I concede to the few voters who are not town employee's and vote for good solid government. When 77% of the eligible town voters do not vote in a town (local) election it is because they don't care or want to become involved in town government. Can you offer any other conclusion??
Town employee's who are elected town meeting members are self serving. School teacher are given the day off if they are town meeting members and attend the town meeting. YOU can't be an intelligent person if you see this as anything more than self serving. I'm not upset or mad. The state ethics commission allows town employee's to become town meeting members. Town employee's, who are elected town meeting members vote on their pay raises. This is not, as it relates to the state ethics commission, a conflict of interest. Go figure. Just keep in mind that 77% of eligible voters did not vote in this last town election and Bob Miller who ran on a campaign of supporting town employee's almost won. Only 143 votes separated the winner. Also keep in mind that 234 town voters voted in the Michaud/Miller selectman seat, than the Gracie/McDonald seat. How do you answer this type of factual conclusion?? If a voter takes the time to vote, why vote on the Michaud/Miller race and not vote in the Gracie/McDonald race?? It has everything to do with town employee voters/family and friends of town employee's. All politics is LOCAL
All politics is LOCAL
No more so than here in Dartmouth. The only time the average registered voter is ever motivated to actually vote, is when overrides are on the ballot. Even then, not even close to 100%. Also, far more people traditionally turn out in parts of South Dartmouth. Why have I heard so many complaints about South Dartmouth getting more than their fair share of services? Many from residents of North Dartmouth. Why do I often see members of the town's unions at the polls? Of course, the answers are obvious. As I have told many of the complainers, "you got what you failed to vote for".
I also find it confusing that there were 125 blank votes in the Michaud/Miller race, and 398 in the Gracie/McDonald race.
To understand is educational.
Anon 3:47 - nice try but south dartmouth gets the same services as any other dartmouth resident. no more no less.
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