Clinton and Hoyer Win Greenbelt, Other Races are Close

For each state election it becomes more difficult for News Review staff to gather Greenbelt election results. Volunteers have to go to the election precincts in the city after polls are closed. Election results are supposed to be posted on the door. This time, one set of results was posted so it could not be read through the door and another was not posted on an outside door. Neither the county or state provide election counts by precinct. With a press deadline to meet, this story had to be written based on only partial city results. Although not all Greenbelt precincts have been heard from, tallies from three of them indicate that Greenbelt voters, like state voters, strongly support Hillary Clinton as the Democratic presidential candidate. Voting results from precincts in Greenbelt East, West and Center all put Clinton in the lead, although not as strongly as state wide. While Republicans constitute only about 10 percent of Greenbelt voters and that party’s turnout was lower than that of Democrats, Greenbelters have made it a close race between Donald Trump, John Kasich and Ted Cruz with Trump slightly in the lead in the three precincts reporting at this writing. Statewide Trump was well ahead of the other candidates.  To read the remainder of this story Click Here