It’s like November here at Independent Political Report, with the results from Burlington and Illinois rolling in.  The results from Illinois’ special congressional primary are available at:
http://www.chicagoelections.com/dm/general/SummaryReport.pdf
At the time of posting this, 404 out of 486 precincts have been counted.  The Green primary results are (so far):
Alan Augustson (NOTE:  Augustson dropped out of the race) [...]

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Here is a live stream of video from Burlington, Vermont:
http://www.7dvt.com/
They are reporting today’s election results from Town Meeting Day.  The mayor and various city council seats were up.  Supposedly, Progressive Bob Kiss has won re-election, but that hasn’t been confirmed by any official results yet.

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Ed Coleman is a City-Councilor for the city of Indianapolis. We recently reported here, that Coleman had left the Republican Party for the Libertarian Party. It seems the Republican, and Democratic, Parties see a threat in Mr. Coleman and have now stripped him of his seniority and committee seats. The following is a press release [...]

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Today is the day for the Green Party in Chicago – the special primary taking place to fill the fifth district congressional seat vacated by current White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel includes four Green candidates. Turnout is expected to be very low, probably not topping ten percent, with only about 4,400 voters [...]

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