After closely following the races for the White House, Senate and Congress, it’s time for us to bring in the transition team. Going forward, we will integrate any further election stories into the regular news cycle. Our Election 2008 blog closes this evening.
The dust has apparently settled. With a 745-vote lead, Tom Perriello, Democratic candidate for the Fifth District Congressional seat, has declared victory over Republican incumbent Virgil Goode.
With the results of the Falls Church Voter Turnout revealed, Charlottesville has come up short. Charlottesville Mayor Dave Norris conceded defeat to its Falls Church counterpart.
As votes are being corrected and provisional ballots examined by election boards across the Fifth District, the underdog candidate for the congressional seat can breathe a little easier. For now.
The Fifth District congressional race between 12-year incumbent Virgil Goode and challenger Tom Perriello could be headed to a recount.
UVA’s School of Architecture has lost two key senior faculty and a dean this year. This might sound like a precipitous situation, but members of the faculty regard the loss as a recurring cycle. “It is normal for a school to have a turnover in faculty,” says Associate Professor William Sherman. “Especially a school […]
With 500 buildings and more than 40,000 students and employees, UVA is a big consumer of water and energy. But, as Director of Energy and Utilities Cheryl Gomez explained when the University met with members of various city neighborhood associations, members of City Council and of the city’s Planning Commission at its annual Neighborhood Advisory […]
And we are off! The Albemarle County Department of Voter Registration & Elections has reported that as of 9 am, 17,556 people had voted in the county. That is 26.1 percent of Albemarle’s registered voters. The next figure on voter turnout will be around 1pm. Stay tuned.
Before 7am at the Tonsler Park Recreation Center on Cherry Avenue, close to 100 people lined up waiting to cast their ballot. By 8:30am, the line wasn’t much of a line at all.
As of 1pm, 49.9 percent of registered voters have voted in Albemarle County, reports the Albemarle County Department of Voter Registration and Elections, a total of33,613 people.