While supporters are pleased, opponents fear the nation’s first constitutional amendment for food rights will lead to legal battles.
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Biden says Virginia race wasn’t blowback against him
In Virginia’s governor’s race, Democrat Terry McAuliffe lost to first-time Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin in a state that Biden won by 10 percentage points a year ago.
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Murphy ekes out win in N.J.; GOP’s Youngkin upsets in Virginia
Elsewhere Tuesday, some of the nation’s largest cities held mayoral contests, and Minneapolis voters rejected a ballot initiative that sought to overhaul policing in their city.
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More than 400,000 Mainers voted in statewide referendums and local races
While official results are not yet available, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said Maine had strong voter turnout, and absentee ballot use, for an off-year, referendum-only election.
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Boston elects first woman and Asian American as mayor
Michelle Wu’s victory marks a turning point for the city, which had chosen only white men as mayor before her.
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Voters say ‘yes’ to early closing time for Miami Beach bars
The referendum was held Tuesday in response to increasingly raucous crowds and public drinking in the South Beach entertainment district.
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Saucier unseats Donahue in Pittsfield Town Council race
In the town’s one contested race, Eric Saucier won the District 4 council seat over Heather Donahue, who’s the town’s mayor.
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Majority of Richmond voters in favor of starting withdrawal process again
The town completed the process and voted to leave, but did not have enough votes to validate it.
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Database: Town-by-town vote counts for the ‘right to food’ amendment
The statewide referendum asked voters if they favored an amendment to the Maine Constitution “to declare that all individuals have a natural, inherent and unalienable right to grow, raise, harvest, produce and consume the food of their own choosing for their own nourishment, sustenance, bodily health and well-being.”
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Database: Town-by-town vote counts on the $100 million transportation bond
Most of the money will go toward highways and bridges, while $15 million goes to other projects focusing on rail, aviation and ports.