Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Voters made decisions on car repairs, assisted suicide and medical marijuana in the statewide election.
Question 1: Right to Repair Voters approved the “Right to Repair” ballot question, which would give consumers more choices when fixing a car in today's election. According to numbers on boston.com, 85 percent of voters approved the question, with 51 percent of the state reporting at 10:15 p.m. The initiative requires automakers to make computer software codes for repairs more accessible to independent repair shops and car owners by 2015. But in July, state legislators devised a compromise that would give carmakers until 2018 to comply with the new law, according to a Boston Globe report. By approving Question 1, voters trumped that compromise and enacted the “Right to Repair” act as written on the ballot. “Voters sent a clear message to …
Democrat Elizabeth Warren beat incumbent candidate Scott Brown in the Massachusetts U.S. Senate race.
Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren has beaten incumbent Republican candidate Scott Brown for a seat on the U.S. Senate, according to the Associated Press. Warren is won by a margin of eight percentage points, 54 percent to 46 percent, making her the first female senator elected in Massachusetts. An estatic Warren addressed a crowd of hundreds of excited supporters at the Copley Fairmont Plaza hotel in Boston on Tuesday night. "We did what everyone thought was impossible," she said. "We taught a scrappy, first-time candidate how to win." "You took on the powerful Wall Street banks and let them know that you want a Senator out there fighting for the middle class all of the time," she said. "And despite the odds, you elected the first …
Three out of five precincts were reporting as of late Tuesday night.
Tuesday, Nov. 6, 11 p.m.: We will provide full election results on Wednesday. 9:45 p.m.: Results for 3 out of 5 precincts are in. 7:45 p.m., Grafton Middle School, Precincts 1, 2 and 3 Voters continued to trickle in as Grafton High School sophomores Victoria Franks and Taylor Theroux, both 15, guided them to their precincts. One voter, who declined to give her name, said on her way out that the two most important issues to her during this election were the economy and health insurance coverage. 7:20 p.m., Grafton Elementary School, Precincts 4 and 5 Grafton High School freshman Cara Gilgan, 14, and Grafton Recreation Director Betty Wright continued to guide voters to the poll area. Wright said she was helping out because of the successful …
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Diana
9:26 am on Saturday, November 17, 2012
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