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In the special election held on October 14, 2017, to choose a successor to PSC member Scott Angelle, who joined the [[Donald Trump]] administration,. Greene, a first-time candidate, won the race outright. He defeated two former state legislators who ran against each other in 2011. Damon J. Baldone, another Democrat-turned-Republican, was the interim commissioner who had served since June 2017 under appointment from Governor John Bel Edwards. Baldone finished second to Greene; in third place was the former one-term [[conservative]] Republican state representative, [[Lenar Whitney]], who had unseated Baldone in the 2011 legislative race, only to lose herself in 2015. Greene received exactly 43,000 votes (55 percent) to Baldone's 19,058 (24 percent), and Whitney's 16,207 (21 percent). The race brought only 12.5 percent of registered votes to the polls.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Graphical|title=Election Results|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=October 15, 2017}}</ref>
In the special election held on October 14, 2017, to choose a successor to PSC member Scott Angelle, who joined the [[Donald Trump]] administration,. Greene, a first-time candidate, won the race outright. He defeated two former state legislators who ran against each other in 2011. Damon J. Baldone, another Democrat-turned-Republican, was the interim commissioner who had served since June 2017 under appointment from Governor John Bel Edwards. Baldone finished second to Greene; in third place was the former one-term [[conservative]] Republican state representative, [[Lenar Whitney]], who had unseated Baldone in the 2011 legislative race, only to lose herself in 2015. Greene received exactly 43,000 votes (55 percent) to Baldone's 19,058 (24 percent), and Whitney's 16,207 (21 percent). The race brought only 12.5 percent of registered votes to the polls.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Graphical|title=Election Results|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=October 15, 2017}}</ref>
Greene is a candidate for a full term on the PSC in the November 6 nonpartisan blanket primary which corresponds with congressional races.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/elections/article_8ad49a60-8a8b-11e8-8c46-2f2cfc5d085d.html|title=Candidates for Louisiana Secretary of State, Congress begin to qualify for fall elections|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=July 18, 2018|author=Mark Ballard}}</ref>
Greene won a full term on the PSC in the November 6, 2018, nonpartisan blanket primary which corresponded with congressional races.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/elections/article_8ad49a60-8a8b-11e8-8c46-2f2cfc5d085d.html|title=Candidates for Louisiana Secretary of State, Congress begin to qualify for fall elections|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=July 18, 2018|author=Mark Ballard}}</ref>
In 2015, Greene had supported [[Moderate Republican]] John "Jay" Dardenne in the gubernatorial primary. In the general election, however, Greene like Dardenne backed the Democrat [[John Bel Edwards]], who defeated then [[U.S. Senator]] [[David Vitter]].
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