Vermont: Jim Douglass

May 18, 2009 - 12:12 am
NEWS FEED: Vermont News Guy

Override Ahead?

Do you suppose Shap Smith has the votes?
The Speaker of the House needs 100 of them - that would be 99 of his fellow-Democrats, Progressives, and independents (and possibly a Republican defector if needed?), plus himself, to over-ride Gov. Jim Douglas’s veto of the Fiscal Year 2010 budget and tax package.
“He’s got a hundred and [...]

Tue, 11/11/2008 - 13:37

Complete election results

Vermonters met expectations of high voter turnout last Tuesday, flocking to the polls in numbers not seen since former President Bill Clinton was elected 16 years ago.
 
On Tuesday, the Elections and Campaign Finance division of Vermont's State Department published its report on this year's voter turnout as well as complete election results.
 
Over 66 percent of all eligible voters actually cast their votes, or about 326,822 people. An estimated 30 percent of the voters used absentee ballots.