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Absentee voting indicates interest is very high in election!

Absentee Machine Voting up almost 38% from 4 years ago. Paper absentee ballots returned to be counted already show almost 25% increase, and more are expected tomorrow

By Ed Waggener

If the voting on the absentee machine in the office of Adair County Court Clerk Sheila Blair is any indication, turnout will be very high on election day tomorrow, Tuesday, May 18, 2010.

This year 235 voters cast absentee ballots on the machines, compared to 170 in the primary 4 years ago in 2006. That's an increase of over 38%.

The increase in the number of paper absentee ballots is also high. In the 2006 primary, 150 ballots were mailed back to be counted.



This year, the country court clerk sent ballots to 212 applicants, and already, 187 envelopes are in the clerk's office, ready to be opened tomorrow starting at 10amCT, when they will be hand tabulated. That's an increase of almost 25%, already, over the final total for the primary in 2010.

By law, results of the paper balloting will not be public until after the polls close at 6pmCT.

Absentee paper ballots will accepted "as late as possible" tomorrow.



This story was posted on 2010-05-17 17:57:27
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