And the ballot included several candidates who were arrested on bribery charges in the days before the election.
Animal rights advocates have placed several initiatives on the ballot, including calls to curtail cockfighting in Oklahoma and Arkansas.
There are 60 seats without an incumbent on the ballot, including 38 open seats, 3 vacant seats and 19 newly created seats, the highest number since 1992.
An article yesterday about the first day of petitioning for New York City candidates seeking voters' signatures to get on the ballot included an outdated reference to the election law.
That is, they had voted in every other race — a few dozen were on the ballot, including a gubernatorial contest — but abstained in the Jennings-Buchanan fight.
While it has not received the attention of campaigns in states where full marriage has been on the ballot, including Maine this year, the fight here has been tense.
But with little interest in other races on the ballot, including a pair of meaningless presidential primaries, turnout was low across the state.
There were other prominent races on the ballot, including the still too-close-to-call governor's race and ballot measures to legalize recreational use of marijuana and raise the state's minimum wage, both of which passed.
