Logan County To Have New Commissioner
By Terry Schwartzenberger
Logan County voters have elected a new county commissioner. Cole Johnson, Napoleon garnered 540 votes compared to incumbent Blanche Schumacher, Napoleon who had 244 votes at last Tuesday’s Nov. 3 mid-term General Election. In the lone other race at the county level was that of Sheriff. Incumbent Andrew Bartholomaus, Gackle was being challenged by his deputy sheriff Kyle Friez, Gackle. Bartholomaus received 690 votes compared to 93 for Friez.
There were 801 ballots cast or 55.78% of the 1,436 eligible Logan County voters. Statewide there were 239,057 ballots cast (39.82%) out of a potential 600,394 voters.
Logan County Auditor Jody Kristiansen said after the election, “Everything went smooth, there were no hiccups.” She noted that election results were uploaded to the State of North Dakota website just 45 minutes after the polls closed.
Kristiansen reported 509 ballots were cast prior to election day and that 292 people voted on election day at the Courthouse. She also noted that the canvasing board will have to make a decision regarding 13 other ballots which the election board set aside due to no matching signatures and a few ballots which arrived after election day. State law states that ballots have to be turned in no later than the close of polls on election day.
Billings county had the highest percentage of voters at 66.59% compared to Sioux County where only 21.17% of eligible voters took the time to vote.
Other Logan County positions voted upon were that of State’s Attorney where Isaac Zimmerman received 719 votes. Zimmerman was not actively seeking this position as Logan County has Grant Walker, Bismarck who was appointed by the Commissioners.
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