Election Day 2016
Live coverage of Election Night from the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, including results for local races. Stay tuned throughout the day Tuesday for updates.
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Voter registration nears 75,000 in Gallatin County
Bozeman Daily ChronicleA huge number of Montanans have already cast their votes for today’s national election, including 45 percent of registered voters in Gallatin County. -
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Check in with the Secretary of State's voter information site to find out if you're registered to vote, where you vote and/or the status of your mailed ballot.
I Voted! MVP - My Voter Page Montana
My Voter Page MontanaFind out if you are registered to vote, where you are registered to vote, the location and directions to your polling place, the status of your absentee ballot, and view a sample ballot. -
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There's an excellent book on Rankin by a pair of retired UM professors that's worth your time. I took a look and talked to them, singling out three myths about the first woman to be elected to Congress by Montana 100 years ago.
The myths in Jeannette Rankin's legacy
Bozeman Daily ChronicleHillary Clinton's historic candidacy for president of the United States began, symbolically, in Missoula 100 years ago. -
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There's been alot of talk about the amount of money in Montana's gubernatorial race. We mapped every donation to both candidates. It really is an amazing amount of money from all over the country.
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We're collecting your suggestions for ways to not pay attention to the election today. Let us know your favorite distracting YouTube videos and we'll add them to the playlist.
Anything but the election!
Bozeman Daily ChronicleVideos to remind us all there's a world outside of politics today. Call it a distraction channel. -
Our Election Night Reporting website will go live at 8pm sos.mt.gov/elections/elec… #MTvotes #mtpol #mtnewsby MTSecretary of State via twitter 11/8/2016 6:00:18 PM
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Both Greg Gianforte and Steve Bullock wrote guest columns for the Chronicle's opinion page on why they should be elected. Check them out here:
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On this day in history... (election-related)
- On Nov. 8, 1966, Edward W. Brooke, R-Mass., became the first black candidate to be elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote.
- Republican Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California, defeating Democratic incumbent Pat Brown.
- Montana became the 41st state in 1889.
- In 1932, New York Democratic Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated incumbent Republican Herbert Hoover for the presidency.
- In 1960, Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy defeated Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the presidency.
- In 1988, Vice President George H.W. Bush won the presidential election, defeating the Democratic nominee, Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis.
- In 1994, midterm elections resulted in Republicans winning a majority in the Senate while at the same time gaining control of the House for the first time in 40 years.
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HD 65 Republican challenger Jon Knokey was campaigning at the fairgrounds with GOP campaign staffer Jace Holyoak. Knokey needs the two relatively rural precincts to turnout high and to lose by a narrow margin in the urban precinct. Dems expecting incumbent Chris Pope to win re-election.
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Knokey, a John Deere manager and former Montana State University football player who authored a book on former President Teddy Roosevelt, was the political newcomer in the race but led Pope by a large margin in fundraising. The Republican's pre-election financial reporting showed him taking in a total of $19,813 in campaign contributions. Pope's reporting showed $11,556 in contributions.
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