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Do ACMS students offer preview to Todays Election Results?

Results from Mock Adair Election on Friday, November 4, 2006, can be compared in a few hours (minutes?) to actual votes from today's balloting. Winners are student vote include Ann Melton, Ralph Curry, Bug Knight, Pat Bell, Ed Whitfield, Russ Mobley, Mike Loy, and Gail Williams. Complete tally below

By Barry Dunn,8th Grades Social Studies Teacher ACMS

Students at Adair County Middle School flexed their democratic muscles on Friday by voting for their local candidates of choice in what serves as the countys only available polling numbers to date.

While seventh and eighth grade students at ACMS may be too young to go to the polls on Tuesday, they were plenty old enough to take part in a schoolwide mock election that teachers Cindy Walker, Wendell Froedge, Jennifer Hardin, Cindy Wells, and Barry Dunn organized to demonstrate civic responsibility.


Students were allowed to vote in all races (even those their residency would prohibit them from) and seemed to be particularly fond of those seeking office from the Republican Party as magisterial candidate Jeff Hatcher was the only Democrat to win a partisan race.

The nonpartisan city races saw mayoral challenger Roger Rucker upset incumbent Pat Bell and city council members Charles Grimsley and June Parson voted off while Linda Waggener, Greg Thomas, and Shannon Rowe were voted in.

In the judicial races the students seemed to favor hometown candidates Gail Williams and Michael Loy over their Casey County incumbent counterparts James Weddle and Raymond Overstreet.

Voting results from contested elections only appear below:
U.S. Representative
Whitfield 174

Barlow 85

State Representative
Mobley 158

Wheatley 103

County Judge/Executive
Melton 163

Farris 131

Sheriff
Curry 179

Cheatham 124

Jailer
Knight 207

Collins 85

Magistrate District 1
Stephens 114

Holmes 88

Magistrate District 2
Hamlett 112

Harris 103

Magistrate District 3
Baker 141

Loy 85

Magistrate District 4
Reeder 136

Shelley 74

Magistrate District 5
Coffey 92

Hatcher 118

Magistrate District 7
Hadley 144

Taylor 74

Constable
Rector 145Tucker 59

CITY of COLUMBIA

Mayor


Bell 94

Rucker 100

City Council
Dean 151
Waggener 131
Taylor 119
Moore 115
Thomas 115
Rowe 113
Grimsley 111
Arnold 89
Parson 78

Judge of the Court of Appeals

Lambert 90

Henry 146

Circuit Judge

Weddle 126

Williams 154

District Judge

Overstreet 87Loy 198


This story was posted on 2006-11-07 17:22:40
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