Portland mayor write-in votes topped 19,000
"None of the above" did quite well in last week's Portland mayoral election. According to the city auditor (whom we wrote in), there were 19,162 voters who couldn't bring themselves to vote for either Nutsy or Char-Lie. That was out of about 253,000 votes cast.
You have to look for the bright spots in life, and to us this is one of them. More than 19,000 Portlanders took the time to just say no to bad local government. That's got to be some sort of record.
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Comments (2)
The Elections page has 33-66% for Jeff/Charlie, when the actual numbers, including the write-ins, are:
JS: 31.09%
CH: 61.36%
Wr: 7.55%
Posted by Don Smith | November 14, 2012 12:12 PM
Looks like there's an additional 19k who voted on Measure 26-146, but not in the Mayoral race. Which the back of my envelope says is closer to 15% of voters (at least) who chose to not choose between those choices.
I'm sure if that page reported presidential votes we'd see an even bigger undervote for mayor. Wonder what the typical undervote is for a mayoral race when there's a presidential election.
But 19k under a ballot measure looks pretty big to me.
Posted by Pete Forsyth | November 14, 2012 2:32 PM