I’m leaving for “family night” up at my kid’s pre-school out in Briceland. I should be back by 8:30 and I’ll start posting results from around the county, state, and country immediately.

In the meantime, I’d appreciate any results postings in the comments section preferably with links, especially from outside of Humboldt County. If any show up, I’ll move them into the main post.

Update 8:37: Absentee ballots

WORTH DIKEMAN 7258 55.92%
PAUL V. GALLEGOS 5707 43.97%
Write-in Votes 14 0.11%

I believe that the yes on recall votes were ahead at this point in 2004, but not by as large a margin. I will dig up that info.

And wow! I think Measure T is going to win big!

YES 6547 51.98%
NO 6049 48.02%

Update: 8:52 -

Because the urban vote counts tend to be much slower in California, the left causes and candidates tend to come out behind and inch their way up as the night progresses. Generally, if the left cause/candidate is within 10 points after the first 5% is counted, they’re in pretty good shape. On the other hand, this is a primary election, and turnout is low, so no promises. But it looks like prop 81 will pass, and prop 82 is going to be close. With 4.5% counted:

 81 N    Reading/Library Bond                    425,438  47.3     473,493  52.7  Map
 82 N    Preschool Education                     392,946  43.1     518,024  56.9  Map

Update 9:00 -

6.7% counted:

Phil Angelides                            274,658   48.1 Steve Westly                              244,973   42.9 

9:06 update -

Okay, some large conservative county must have just weighed in.

81 N    Reading/Library Bond                    538,474  44.0     684,685  56.0  Map

82 N    Preschool Education                     501,814  40.4     738,029  59.6  Map

Update 9:07 - yup, that would be Orange County.
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