Absentee votes carried Stewart to runoff
The voters who kept long-time Ward 4 councilman Fred Stewart in the race never made it to the polls.
Absentee ballots accounted for 100 of Stewart’s 361 votes, enough to force a runoff election with challenger Marty Turner, who had accumulated 53.7 percent of the vote before the absentee ballots were counted.
Gay marriage, marijuana highlight ballots
Lady Gaga and Brad Pitt have weighed in on one side, evangelist icon Billy Graham on the other as the four-state showdown over same-sex marriage reaches its Election Day conclusion with the potential for a historic breakthrough.
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