As promised in today's earlier article, (and as we've done every year since the 2005 founding of Weber County Forum), we're once again quite thrilled to provide a real-time feed from the Ogden City Recorder's Office, tallying in real-time the results of today's Ogden City Municipal Primary Election. And a Weber County Forum Tip O' The Hat to the gremlins in the O'Town IT Department, by the way. They had butt-kickking, leading edge, map oriented real-time vote tallying software back in '07 and '09, and yet this newly-designed software setup totally blows the doors off those earlier versions:
• 2011 Municipal General Election Real-time TalliesAlthough we're told by the Ogden City IT Department that this automated feature will be up and running shortly after the polls close at 8:00 p.m., please be aware that these "live" vote tallies may still be subject to annoying human-caused lags and delays, as the raw data are physically lugged into the counting house from the various city polling places, and entered into the computer that tallies the votes.
While we're waiting for Ogden City's newly re-designed real-time/online scoreboard spring into action, we'll also invite all WCF political wonks who are logged in here to offer up their comments about today's Ogden Municipal Primary Election Event.
And one other thing... if the above link somehow doesn't perform as advertized (or you don't perhaps have the latest version of Adobe Flash Player installed), we're informed that the Weber County Clerk's office will also be publishing real time data, too, in relative Fred Flintstone style; you'll thus have to refresh this page the old fashioned way (manually):
That's it from us for now; and we do believe we have it covered on all bases.
So pull up your La-Z-Boys and fill the bowl with freshly-popped Orville Whatchamacallit's, folks.
Exciting, ainnit?
Update 9/13/11 10:50 p.m.: The Standard-Examiner is already running the story:
28 comments:
I guess by tomorrow morning we'll know if six degrees of mike caldwell still has a job.
It's obvious the big money is backing Caldwell, including paying for of Internet trolls:
"Hey, I'm new here. I was wondering why there are some skeptical comments about Mike Caldwell given that he seems like and excellent candidate and blah blah blah."
Six degrees, your future is close at hand.
Live polls not working. I know it is early, will they be going soon?
Yes. It's working. In 2009, the first tallies didn't show up for the first 45 minutes. Patience is a virtue here, these vote counts always start out slowly.
my results website will not even launch, any update from those of you who the website is working for?
Same here... city link, wcforum link nor standard link not opening at all. Thought it was my computer but if others having same problem then who knows. Perhaps someone can update on here in posts for those of us who are not connecting. Thanks.
Be sure your Adobe Flash Player is updated. I haad the same problem late in the p.m. when I was doing the setup with the Ogden City IP guys; and the Flash Player update fixed the problem.
The website is flash based and won't work on my iPhone. Works on my computer.
Thanks Rudi... that worked!
Overall turnout: 9% of the eligible voters. Not even double figures.
So, if someone gets 5o%+1 in the primary, are they elected, or is it the top 2 vote getters in the general regardless?
Top 2 vote getters in the general regardless.
Damn. My dream runoff for Ogden --- Van Hooser vs. Caldwell --- just missed and Stephenson snuck into the number two spot. Damn damn damn.
And Amy Wicks missed by a whisker winning outright on the first ballot. She'll face a run off, but in a very strong position having garnered just a smidge under 50 percent of the vote.
Jennifer Neal ousted on the first ballot in her Council race. Since she was running for Stephenson's old seat and in Stephenson country, can't say I'm surprised. I am surprised she did as well as she did in what had been wholly uncontested Stephenson country up until her race.
Nine percent of the eligible voters managed to flog themselves to the polls to decide Ogden's future for the next four years. As I used to tell my students, "not voting is as American as apple pie."
Rudi: you sure about that? I thought anyone getting 50% of the vote plus one in a primary was elected.
Guess you're right: SE reporting "In City Council races, Richard Hyer and Jennifer Neil advanced to the general election in Ward 2."
That is good news, that JN is still on the boards for the next go round. She'll still be paddling up stream in Stephenson's old district, but still in the game. Wish I could vote for her.
I can't connect to the city page even after the flash update. Who is currently in the #1 and #2 spot for mayor?
Write in campaign for mayor??????
An exercise in futility, even if it were legal, which I doubt it is.
Fewer than a hundred votes. So damn close....
Ah, well. Politics isn't horseshoes.
Check out the Weber County Clerk's Link:
2011 Ogden Municipal Election Results:
1) Mike Caldwell: 1953, 34.56%
2) Brandon Stephenson: 1342, 23.75%
Jennifer Neal is in the top 2 and will be in the general election.
Damn again!!!! I was having hope for Ogden.
Brandon doesn't stand a chance, my guess is that 95% of Van Hooser supporters will switch to Caldwell/
It's interesting to see the general swing of support to Caldwell and where it appears to have come from. One would think his base would more naturally come from Stephenson than Susie, but his rise seems to coincide pretty directly with her erosion. Van Wagoner dropped a fair amount as well, but didn't have that many votes to contribute. Did Susie come off too negative, or was there an overlap in the "protect the benches" message that trended Caldwell? As a predominantly Susie forum, I'd be interested in your takes?
Are the provisional ballots an issue? 200 ballots is more than the margin of Stephenson over VanHooser
Here's Cathy McKitrick's writeup in the Trib:
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/52578094-90/percent-stephenson-district-caldwell.html.csp
I was fortunate enough to be invited to multiple candidates' election night parties last night, and was with Susie at Two Bit Street Cafe when the last results came in. Her supporters were understandably glum, but Susie herself was classy. She immediately announced that we were all going over to the Ben Lomond Hotel to congratulate Mike.
Because there are still a couple hundred uncounted provisional and absentee ballots, Susie has not conceded to Brandon. She knows, though, that her chances of overtaking him are slim.
My take on the results: A substantial number of Ogden voters are hoping to move beyond the polarization of the Godfrey era and bring in a fresh face. From what I can tell, Caldwell's supporters are about equally divided between those who supported Godfrey and Van Hooser in the last election.
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Does anyone have the results of the provisional ballot count today?
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