The 22nd District Race May Take A While

By Kleinheider Posted on November 3, 2008 at 12:55 pm

If it’s at all close, Tuesday may be a long night in Clarksville in the race between Democratic nominee Tim Barnes and write-in candidate Rosalind Kurita:

Koelman said after the polls close Tuesday, voting information is downloaded from the machines and vote totals will be printed on spreadsheets. Under the write-in category will be a total number of votes recorded, then each of those votes will also be printed out.

Counting board members will then look at each of the printed names to determine if it is a valid vote.

“The number of votes (for a particular write-in candidate) won’t be known until we count them by hand,” Koelman said.

The counting process is likely to take longer in Montgomery County because of voter volume. Early voting accounted for 36,168 of the county’s 90,063 register voters. Meanwhile, rural Houston County has 5,200 registered voters, and through 11 a.m. Wednesday, only 1,753 of them had voted early.

As mentioned, Cheatham has nearly 24,000 registered voters with maybe half of that number participating in early voting.

After Tuesday’s election results are reported locally, and nationwide, vote counting in the 22nd District state Senate race will continue.

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