Phillip, Tony ballot upset

Phillip, Tony ballot upset

Journal 11/12/1976 P8 Worms eradicated The local Agriculture Department here surely deserves a note of congratulations — thanks to the quick work of district agriculturalist Liki Labi, a serious plague of worms found in a local hydroponic station was taken care of with a suitable pesticide. According to our source, the worms were reported one […]

Machine counting? What’s the rush…

Some election observers, including some in the United States, expressed surprise that the RMI is still “hand counting” votes for the 2015 national election. Yes, it’s true: hand counting has been the norm from election number one in 1979 to election number 10 this week. Given the combination of things that bedevil technology in the […]

Health refresher training OIHC

Health refresher training OIHC

The Ministry of Health completed a refresher and updating medical course last week for its second group of outer islands health assistants this year. Ministry of Health’s Outer Islands Health Center (OIHC) concluded the two-week training for 25 health assistants bringing to 50 the number of outer islands health providers retrained in 2015. Dr. James […]

RMI Election Update Thursday PM

RMI Election Update Thursday PM

The latest update from the Electoral Administration is provided below. While tabulating is nearly completed in both Majuro and Ebeye, many of the results are still being inputted into the master result list by Electoral staff. This is why there are still gaps in results for both “regular” and “absentee” votes in most of these […]

Youth push for Nitijela

Youth push for Nitijela

Monday’s smoothly conducted national election moved into the grind of the ongoing hand count in Majuro and Ebeye early Tuesday morning, where ongoing tabulation meant complete results for all “regular” and “absentee” votes in the Majuro electorate would likely not be available until Friday. In addition to early results showing incumbents being shocked by challengers, […]

RMI Election Update Wednesday PM

RMI Election Update Wednesday PM

These vote totals reflect all Majuro “regular” votes for Nitijela and mayor races. Tabulation of votes from all Majuro wards have now been completed as of Wednesday, 11-18-15. The data in this chart is mostly from the Electoral Administration, with some of the wards from poll watcher numbers. Name             […]

RMI Election Update Wednesday AM

RMI Election Update Wednesday AM

The Electoral Administration provided updated vote tabulation results for the RMI National Election at 8:30am Wednesday November 18, 2015. These updates are provided below. A recount was scheduled for Rita regular votes to begin at 12noon Wednesday. Otherwise, all Majuro regular votes have been tabulated. Kwajalein regular vote tabulation was continuing at Ebeye. Ebeye tabulators […]

Election Update Tuesday Late PM

Election Update Tuesday Late PM

With Hilary Hosia reporting live from the ICC Early preliminary and unofficial results from the RMI national election showed Tuesday evening that several government party candidates are facing strong challenges. In Majuro, incumbent Phillip Muller was in sixth place in a 5-seat race over 150 votes behind the fifth highest vote getter; at Kwajalein incumbent […]

RMI Election Update Tuesday PM

RMI Election Update Tuesday PM

Tuesday afternoon, 11/17/15 update from the ICC national election headquarters: Hilary Hosia reporting live from the ICC By 1:30pm Tuesday 11/17/15, a majority of Majuro regular votes have been tabulated. Here is the updated, still unofficial “regular” vote total results with the following wards included: Aenkan, Rongrong, Iolap, Lobat, Lomar, Woja, Ajeltake, Rairok and Uliga […]