Gunter, Ray claim seats on library district board
Keith Kinnaird News Editor | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 12 years, 7 months AGO
SANDPOINT — Retired librarian Gloria Ray and retired library director Wayne Gunter cruised to lopsided wins Tuesday in the race for two seats on the East Bonner County Library District’s board of trustees.
Gunter amassed 523 votes, while Ray finished with 509. Incumbent Trustee Jim Spagon collected 265 votes and Susan Shea ended up with 211.
The results are unofficial until canvassing occurs on Wednesday.
Voter turnout was slight and delayed in some cases, according to Bonner County Clerk Marie Scott.
The Southside precinct had its first walk-in voter at 2:45 p.m. Nobody in the Hope precinct voted until after 10:30 a.m. As of 6:15 p.m., only eight of Dover’s 380 registered voters had cast ballots.
Scott said the county mailed out 319 absentee ballots, but 149 of them had not been returned as of 6:25 p.m.
Of the 17,342 registered voters in the library election, only 9 percent of them turned out at the polls
There was a 7-percent turnout for the Lake Pend Oreille School District trustee election and a 22-percent turnout for the West Bonner County School District levy election. The latter school district had 26- and 22-percent turnouts for its two trustee spots.
Voters in the Lamb Creek voting precinct at Priest Lake elected David Conboy and Gary Rudie to the Kalispell Bay Sewer District Board. Conboy and Rudie had 15 and 13 votes, respectively. Timothy Ventress and James W. Anderson had seven and eight votes, respectively.
The sewer district election had the highest turnout, Scott said. Seventy-eight percent of its 55 voters cast ballots.
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