December 28, 2024
BANGOR DAILY NEWS (BANGOR, MAINE

All residents of Kingsbury Plantation vote; Clinton big winner

For the first time in many years, 100 percent of the residents in Kingsbury Plantation turned out to vote, favoring Democratic candidates over their Republican counterparts.

Town Clerk Lois Worcester, who must travel seven miles to Wellington to report the results each year because there are no telephones in the tiny community, said all 11 registered voters, plus one new resident, voted Tuesday.

Bill Clinton and Al Gore received 10 votes, and Ross Perot garnered one vote in Kingsbury Plantation. Olympia Snow for 2nd District Congress, Richard Gould for House District 104 and Charles Pray for Senate District 5 were also victors in this plantation. Residents there favored rail-line purchases, the dedicating of license fees, and state mandate costs.

In Greenville and Dover-Foxcroft, residents were lined up to vote long before the polls opened. Greenville Town Clerk Roxanne Lizotte said people began lining up to vote at 8 a.m. even though the polls didn’t open until 10 a.m. She said a steady stream of residents had entered the polls during early morning and midafternoon. She predicted that the turnout could be as close to the one that covered the moose lottery a few years ago. More people turned out that year to vote than in many years, she said.


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