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The 2012 New York state elections took place on November 6, 2012. These elections included the 2012 presidential election, an election to one U.S. Senate seat, and elections to all 27 New York congressional seats, all 63 seats in the New York State Senate, and all 150 seats in the New York State Assembly.
Discounting New York City's votes, Obama still would have carried New York State, albeit by a closer margin. Excluding New York City, Obama's vote total in the state was 2,490,636 to Romney's 2,053,607, giving Obama a 54.03%–44.54% win outside of NYC. In terms of exit polls, Obama performed roughly as expected.
One database found absentee-ballot fraud to be the most prevalent type of election fraud (at 24%) with 491 reported prosecutions between 2000 and 2012 out of billions of votes were cast. [12] Experts are more concerned with legally-cast mail-in ballots discarded on technicalities than with voter fraud.
The 2012 election marked the first time since Franklin D. Roosevelt's last two re-elections in 1940 and 1944 that the Democrats won a majority of the popular vote in two consecutive elections. [152] Obama was also the first president of either party to secure a majority of the popular vote in two elections since Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 ...
A top Democrat in the state Senate is pitching legislation that would speed up the counting of absentee ballots in the Empire State. As dozens of state legislative races have yet to be determined ...
New Yorkers will head to the polls three times in 2024 to cast ballots for president and for state and federal lawmakers, with party primaries in April and June before the main event in November.
Despite the imbalance in registration, New York voters have shown a willingness to elect relatively centrist Republicans to local offices, though not in the presidential election. New York is near unique among the states in that it allows electoral fusion (cross-endorsement). [1] As a result, New York ballots tend to list many political parties.
Elections were held in the United States on November 6, 2012. Democratic President Barack Obama won reelection to a second term and the Democrats gained seats in both chambers of Congress, retaining control of the Senate even though the Republican Party retained control of the House of Representatives.