Race too close to call
Provisional ballots count could change the 2 GOP commissioner nominees
Two Cabarrus County primary races are so close that they may not be settled until elections officials count provisional ballots next week.
School board member Liz Poole led the voting Tuesday in a race to determine the Republican nominees who will compete for two seats on the Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners.
But incumbent Bob Carruth led candidate Holly Blackwelder by only 46 votes for the second slot on the Republican ticket, according to unofficial returns.
And the first person to use the phrase “Dimpled Chad” gets exiled to Mecklenburg county.
More seriously, any idea why 80-90% of the provisional ballots are on the Democrat side, with only 10-20% on the Republican side? Is that normal?
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1 Justin Thibault // May 8, 2008 at 8:36 am
Tony - I took the liberty of editing your article by including only an excerpt of the article you’re referring to in the Cabarrus Neighbors. I didn’t want to take any traffic away from Sharif.
As for the provisional ballots, the Dem turnout “activated” more voters: people who were once inactive, had incorrect addresses, etc. The GOP turnout was more among people who vote regularly.
If the McCain-Huckabee battle had still been going on - the proportions would be different.
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