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Unofficial
Election Results
Updated Thursday, Nov. 6
From staff reports
Local election staff continued to count ballots past 2 a.m. Wednesday
morning, following Tuesday’s general election.
According to the Kansas Secretary of State’s Web site, Osage
County remained one of the last six counties to report results to
Topeka, a repeat performance of the August primary.
Osage County Clerk Rhonda Beets, who is also the county election
officer, said there were around 1,000 advance ballots cast, which
added to the time it took to tally final results. “We had
two machines quit on us around 4 p.m.,” Beets said. “They
just stopped accepting ballots. It was a machine in Agency and then
one in Scranton also quit taking ballots. We had to count those
by hand.”
“Back when we used paper ballots for the general election,
the courthouse was dark by 9 o’clock,” said Willie Prescott,
a county commissioner.
The final tally came in around 2:30 a.m., showing that Sheriff Laurie
Dunn was re-elected for another term, receiving 5,780 votes. Election
results for write-in candidate Robert Gregory were not available
at press time.
Osage County voters chose William Prescott over Jim Irey 3,996 to
3,273, who will take office as 59th District House Representative.
For Osage County Commission District 2, Michael Pruitt edged out
his competitor, Jim Foster, by a margin of 181.
In the Osage County Commission District 3 race, Kenneth Kuykendall
received 1,717 votes, defeating Terri Dobbs, who had 665 votes.
U.S. Senator Pat Roberts’ tally in Osage County, 4,699 votes,
reflected his statewide win over Jim Slattery, who received 2,401
votes in the county.
In the race for U.S. Representative 2nd District, Lynn Jenkins received
3,950 in-county votes and 151,827 statewide, beating incumbent Nancy
Boyda’s 137,370 statewide votes.
Burlingame voters chose to implement additional sales tax by a vote
of 215 (yes) to 178 (no). Overbrook residents said “yes”
to the proposed recreation system, 252 to 210. The question posed
on Carbondale ballots, to implement additional sales tax, passed
by a narrow margin, 287 (yes) to 266 (no).
Osage County voter turnout was unavailable at press time, but Beets
and several election workers who have assisted in prior general
elections, said the 2008 general election had the largest voter
turnout they can remember.
Additional election coverage will appear in next week’s Herald-Chronicle.
Commissioners will canvass votes 8:30 a.m. Friday. |
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