Election results approved

The results of last week’s primary election have been verified and confirmed by the county canvassing board, according to County Clerk Melissa Jones. No recounts were necessary and no issues emerged during the process.

“We had no automatic recounts and we had no provisional ballots that we had to go through,” says Jones. “Everything went smoothly for us.”

It wasn’t that the primary didn’t have some very close races – the two candidates for Pine Haven’s mayor, for example, received exactly the same number of votes at 113 each.

However, for nonpartisan seats, two names will move forward to the g...