Annapolis Voted For Barack Obama
Annapolis' voter turnout was less than the statewide average, but about even with the national percentage.
Annapolis voters chose Barack Obama as the country's next president by 55.9 percent, according to complete but unofficial results from the Anne Arundel County Board of Elections. Obama carried Annapolis by a smaller margin than Maryland, where the president won 61.5 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results from the Maryland Board of Elections. The results showed voter turnout in Anne Arundel County was 69.17 percent—which is about even with turnout statewide of 69.04 percent. Annapolis' turnout fell below state averages with 53.43 percent of registered voters showing up, but it was on par with the 55 percent national voter turnout recorded for the 2012 elections. Anne Arundel County's Board of Elections recorded the highest …
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Matt Patton
6:16 pm on Friday, October 26, 2012
This is a really bad idea masquerading as constructive bipartisanship. Decades of research shows we need institutions like political parties to organize complex political information. A better idea would be to have multi-partisan elections with runoffs or ranked voting. more ›