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2023 School Board election recap

Some thoughts on the April 4, 2023, school board and municipal results, from my live-tweet thread. (ThreadReaderApp unroll here.) At 7:36 pm, early results in the Tulsa school board election came from 4 of the 18 precincts in District 1, all east of the river (and thus incumbent Stacey Woolley's...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 13, 2023 4:17 PM

Election 2016: State-by-state results at the Green Papers

If you'd like to see where everything settled out after all the votes were counted, The Green Papers is the most meticulous online resource for detailed, nitty-gritty election information. There you will be able to see a comprehensive popular vote total, including every write-in vote tabulated across the nation. (David...

Posted by Michael Bates on November 12, 2016 10:40 AM

Vision2: Election night analysis on KJRH

I was in the KJRH 2 News studio election night, on a panel with news anchors Russ McCaskey and Karen Larsen and fellow analysts David Blatt of the Oklahoma Policy Institute and State Sen. Rick Brinkley to talk about state questions and other local results as they came in. Here's...

Posted by Michael Bates on November 8, 2012 5:46 AM

Oklahoma general election 2012

Happy Election Day! Polls open in Oklahoma at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. Tonight, I'll be on KJRH's election night coverage, part of a panel discussing state and local elections. While the main channel carries NBC's national coverage, KJRH's digital subchannel 2.2 (Cox Cable 222) will focus on...

Posted by Michael Bates on November 6, 2012 7:00 PM

Oklahoma's lovely new election night reporting system

Pretty, pretty, pretty, and we get our first look at it tonight. Oklahoma's new election processing system comes with a fancy new election night reporting system, making it possible to see every race in the state -- from town trustee to president -- to see the results for each precinct...

Posted by Michael Bates on February 14, 2012 7:20 PM