Super Tuesday 2024

Hartwood Precinct has over 4,000 registered voters, and on this day 850 in-person voters. Photo by Jared Smith at 5:55am shows Edwin Ridout, Gloria Chittum, Secretary, Electoral Board, Margery Schafer, Shannon Shinskie, Bob Jankovits, Susan Young, Darrel Evans, Chuck Schafer, Art Fox, and Jared Smith.

Our precinct’s results, 7:23pm:

Primary Election Day

Westlake Precinct, at Richland Baptist Church, Stafford, Virginia, 5:55am Tues June 20th: Tricia Gardner-Gonzalez, Bob Jankovits, Heather Smithson, Mike Friedel, Jim Holt, Belinda Robinson, Gloria Chittum (secretary of the electoral board), Edwin Ridout.

Election

Mid-term general election, 8 November 2022, the new Westlake Precinct in Stafford County: Edwin Ridout, Mike Straley, Perry Darley, Rebecca Straley, Bob Jankovits, John Summer, Jim Holt, Leslie Raterman, Heather Smithson, Gloria Chittum (Secretary, Electoral Board), Tricia Gardner-Gonzalez. Open 6am-7pm, 956 voters, just one race, 7th US Congressional District. Our precinct results: incumbent Abigail Spanberger (D) 259, Yeslie Vega (R) 692, write-ins 5. District-wide result (after 215 of 226 precincts reported): Spanberger 140,582; Vega 129,416; write-ins 641.

June primary election

Hartwood Precinct Election Officials, June 21, 2022: Heather Smithson, Mike Friedel, Cassie Corcoran, me, Chuck Schafer, Robert Bady, Margery Schafer, Bob Jankovits, and Electoral Board Secretary Gloria Chittum. A Republican primary for the Virginia’s new 7th district of US Congress. Just 685 people came to vote in our precinct, 244 for Vanuch, 220 for Anderson, 98 for Vega, fewer for Reeves, Ross, and Ciarcia. However this NY Times report shows the winner as Vega (endorsed by Ted Cruz) with 10,875 votes (28.9%). She’ll face Democratic incumbent Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger in November.

Presidential Election

Hartwood Precinct, moments before we opened the polls at 6am. We have almost 6,000 registered voters in our corner of Stafford County, and about 2,500 of them had already voted early or absentee. After 13 hours, at our 7pm closing time, we’d had 2,020 in-person voters and eight provisional voters. Hoping to shed the masks before our June 2021 primary election.

Seated or kneeling, L to R: Valerie Matthews, Margery Schafer, Vance Corbett, Jenny Smith, Trudy Lewis, Cassie Corcoran, Edwin Ridout. 
 Standing: Kelly Sims, Bob Jankovits, Amy Gardner, Kristy Tubbs, Judy Feather, Debbie Bittinger, Chris Sions, Deb Fontaine-Otwell.  

Primary election day

Our sinister Hartwood Precinct ready to open, 6am June 23rd: Judy Feather, Heather Smithson, Debbie Bittinger, Amy Gardner, Robert Bady, Electoral Board Secretary Gloria Chittum, Edwin Ridout. The wearing of masks was just one of almost a dozen extra precautions we had to take against the corona virus. The overwhelming majority of voters wore masks too. We conducted a “dual primary”, really two separate events, but together counted 588 ballots. Of these, 215 were to help choose a Democratic candidate to oppose a Republican incumbent US Congressman of the first congressional district, and 373 were to help choose a Republican candidate to oppose an incumbent Democratic US Senator of Virginia.

Super Tuesday, Democratic Party Presidential Primary

Hartwood Precinct ready to open at 6am, 3/3/2020: Robert Bady, Debbie Bittinger, Bob Jankovits, Judy Feather, Heather Smithson, Amy Gardner, Margery Schafer, Edwin Ridout. By closing time at 7pm, we’d checked in 898 of our 5,199 registered voters and by 7:15pm reported these results: Joe Biden 487, Bernie Sanders 195, Michael Bloomberg 111, Elizabeth Warren 69, and 34 votes divided among the remaining 10 names on the ballot.

Election Day at Hartwood

Ready to open, 5:55am, Tuesday November 5th, 2019: John & Lois Steiner, Debbie Bittinger, Bob Jankovits, Judy Miller, Judy Feather, Electoral Board Secretary Gloria Chittum, Edwin Ridout. We checked in 2,402 of our ~5000 registered voters, and they voted on 9 state or local races and one transportation bond issue.

Democratic Primary Election Day

Hartwood Precinct, Stafford, Virginia, 11 June 2019, a few minutes before we opened at 6am. Bob Jankovits, Debbie Shellhammer, John Steiner, Debbie Bittinger, Lois Steiner, Judy Miller, Edwin Ridout. Total ballots by our 7pm closing time: 128, about 9.8 per hour (versus 236 per hour last November).