The Laffey camp is
feeling confident.
Steve Laffey's campaign aides will be stunned if they lose. Campaign sources say they hit all their target numbers in every targeted precinct etc, assuming a turnout of 50 to 55k voters.
These are just targeting predictors, not vote counts, so anything can happen, but everything has gone as planned for their turnout operation.
The Secretary of State reports that precincts across the state ran out of the more than 20K Unaffiliation forms they distributed. That suggests a least three possibilities:
1. Independents and Democrats voted for Chafee and then re-established their independent credentials
2. Voters who normally vote D in municipal elections switched to R for the purposes of choosing Laffey or and then switched back
3. GOP voters switched to the Democratic Party for the purposes of the election and had no interest in the GOP primary.
Or all of the above.
#3 is nonsensical. There was nothing worth voting for on the Democratic side. So it's got to be 1 and/or 2.
I've got a results page here. I'm sure we'll be looking for the best results page through the next few hours.