Sanders wins island where ferry shipped emergency ballots
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Bernie Sanders can thank a patient ferry captain for helping to clinch his Democratic presidential primary victory in the sleepy resort community of Block Island.
Sanders captured 64 percent of the Democratic vote Tuesday on the remote island that's a 55-minute boat ride from mainland Rhode Island.
There wouldn't have been enough ballots for all 308 islanders who cast Democratic votes were if not for a frenzied mission to get an emergency shipment to Block Island before its sole polling place closed. The island had reserved only 300 ballots for the contest between Sanders and Hillary Clinton.
Steve Kimball, captain of the day's last ferry, held his boat and its 92 passengers at a Narragansett dock for 22 minutes as he waited for the extra ballots.