Marion County Clerk Steve Fox says the new voting equipment used for the first time in Tuesday’s election worked well. He notes the first precinct was in the courthouse by 7:30 and all but one precinct was ready to be processed by 8:30.
“I think the new equipment really did a good job for us. I know we had a really good response from our election judges. They were telling us the voters really liked working through the new equipment. Of course, everybody’s learning, still, but everything worked really well.”
Fox says the only problem that delayed the results was a problem in Iuka Township where a ballot was apparently taken by a voter who then did not vote for an unknown reason. As a result, the votes had to be recounted one ballot at a time through the machine.
A total of 27 percent of Marion County voters went to the polls. 5,724 of those voting took Republican ballots and just 814 Democratic ballots.
