Election day news

Yesterday was election day, and I'll summarize the latest.

A nice detail: this picture of our community house was on the New York Times front page:

Ripton passed its budget (source), as did most towns.

In town elections, all unopposed candidates won.  For the one contested seat, Perry Hanson narrowly defeated Dick Collitt for Select Board, 116 votes to 112 (source).

Act 46 passed all seven ACSU towns as of around 10 pm election night,along with four other districts,  so board unification will proceed.
Votes were as follows:

Bridport

Yes:334 No:98

Cornwall      

Yes:404  No:63    

Middlebury  

Yes:1631 No:278

Ripton        

Yes: 150  No:93

Salisbury  

Yes: 251 No:78

Shoreham

Yes: 305 No:143

Weybridge

Yes: 329 No:39

Given Act 46 approval, people from all seven towns elected representatives to the new Addison County Supervisory District (ACSD).  Broken down by town of residency and votes received:

Bridport: Suzanne Buck

Suzanne Buck - 1538
Rick Scott - 1182

Cornwall: Peter Conlon

Peter Conlon - 2975

Middlebury: Victoria Jette, JP Rees, Ruth Hardy, Jason Duquette-Hoffman, Lorraine Morse, Steve Orzech, Josh Quinn

Victoria Jette - 2716
JP Rees - 2105
Ruth Hardy - 2540
Jason Duquette-Hoffman - 2356
Lorraine Morse, - 2643
Steve Orzech - 2068
Josh Quinn – 2300

Ripton: Perry Hanson

Bryan Alexander - 993
Perry Hanson - 1033
Jerome Shedd - 498

Salisbury: Jennifer Nuceder

Jennifer Nuceder - 2800

Shoreham: Nick Causton

Nick Causton - 2741

Weybridge: Chris Eaton

Christoper Eaton - 2754

Here's how Riptonites voted for the school board.

In the presidential primary, Ripton folks leaned towards Bernie Sanders (source) (another source):

Democratic: Sanders 190, Clinton 26
Republican: Trump 13, Kasich 10, Cruz 5, Rubio 4, Carson 1, Paul 1