When Mary Dean Rose first started working polls in Oktibbeha County in the 1970s, elections looked different than they do today.
“I was back in the day when they read out the ballot and you tallied (by hand),” Rose told The Dispatch Monday. “We go way back, in the ‘70s.”
Rose will manage the polls at the Oktibbeha County Circuit Court complex during Tuesday’s election, as voters go to the polls to decide the country’s next president, along with state and local races across th
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