Shelby County has voted, but it will take some time before the conclusive results are known.
Voting officially closed in Shelby County on Tuesday, and Shelby County Clerk Sue Carole Perry said that even with the changes to the standard procedure her office follows during elections, the election still ran smoothly with no major issues.
“We didn’t have a lot of issues at all,” Perry said. “We had just your normal little things, people thinking they were registered in one way.”
In-person voters clocked in at about 4,000, which when paired with the more than 9,000 mail-in ballots Perry’s office sent out, puts the county near a high-end total of 13,000 total votes, although the number itself will likely be lower, as some voters who requested absentee ballots still chose to vote in person instead.
Due to this quirk, the county clerk’s office cannot make a final judgment on total voter turnout until they have received every ballot, which continues as absentee ballots had to be postmarked by June 23.
But Perry had a guess at what final voter turnout would be.
“It’s only a guess…We’re thinking we had about 40 percent,” she said.
Early and inconclusive results from the county clerk’s office indicate that Charles Booker carries a lead over Amy McGrath for Democratic nomination in the U.S. Senate race, with 47.29 percent of votes against McGrath’s 33.68. However, these results are not final, with only results from in-person voting on Election Day and early ballots. Mail-in ballots have not yet been counted.
Because of their early nature, the totals could change radically when the final results are released on June 30.
Other races indicate a strong, 76.38 percent lead for Jennifer Decker for the 58th District State House Republican nomination, a narrower lead of 56.32 percent from Alexandra Owensby over Shannon Fabert, and commanding leads of more than 80 percent for incumbent Republicans Mitch McConnell and Thomas Massie. The Associated Press has already called the races in favor of McConnell and Massie.
This year’s unusual primary election may be finished, but the county clerk’s office still has plenty of work to do before they can announce final results.
“We’ve got another two or three day’s work to do before we’ll have any totals,” Perry said Wednesday. “We’ve still got almost 2,000 ballots right now that we’re working on verifying signatures. We have to verify the signatures, and then we have to open the envelope and get the ballot out. Different people have to do different steps so nobody sees which ballot belongs to who.”
Different teams have to complete each step of the process of counting votes, with separate people verifying signatures, opening the envelopes, retrieving the ballots and running them through the voting machine.
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