Wyoming wants to give you your money back.
The Unclaimed Property Division of the Wyoming State Treasurer’s Office is advertising the “Wyoming Windfall” for 2013 — approximately $3.4 million in unclaimed property. This year’s list contains approximately 10,200 names of owners of unclaimed checking and savings accounts, insurance benefits, stock and other funds, wages, refunds, deposits and overpayments.
State Treasurer Mark Gordon says the average claim is less than $100, but some owners have claimed $100,000 or more, according to the Associated Press.
Funds that have been held by a company or by another state for a specified number of years and have not or cannot be paid to the owner are then placed in protective custody by the state treasurer. The
Unclaimed Property Division safeguards and makes an effort to return the funds to the rightful owner, at no cost to the owner.
The Wyoming Windfall has been successful in returning more than $27.7 million to approximately 43,300 owners since the Unclaimed Property Law passed in 1993. Last fiscal year, over $2 million was claimed by owners or heirs.
Any person who finds his or her name on the list, or the name of a relative, should call the Unclaimed Property Division at 307-777-5590 or write to: Wyoming Unclaimed Property Division, 2515 Warren Ave., Suite 502, Cheyenne, WY 82002.
The Wyoming Windfall also can be accessed online at www.wywindfall.gov.
Below is a spreadsheet listing the folks and businesses with unclaimed property whose last known address is in Park County. If that doesn't work for you, you can download the list as a PDF file.
Friday, February 8, 2013
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Fifty bald eagles in Basin? Nope.
A photograph of more than 50 bald eagles in a tree is making the rounds on Facebook this week. A Powell woman's post claimed the photo was taken in Basin, Wyo., but here at the Tribune, we had our doubts.After a bit of research, it turns out the photograph was actually taken by Chuck Hilliard, a photographer in Seattle, Wash. He posted on his Facebook page Thursday morning to clarify the photo is his, and that it wasn't taken anywhere near Basin or Wyoming.
As of Thursday morning, the post saying the photograph was taken in Basin had been shared more than 1,000 times on Facebook, so we just wanted to clarify that the photo wasn't taken in the Big Horn Basin.
Our friends at the Basin Republican Rustler didn't believe it was a local photo.
Wrote Republican Rustler editor Karla Pomeroy on Hilliard's Facebook wall: "We
live in Basin and knew right away was not taken here and we've been
investigating. We'll try to spread the word of where the photo
originally came from. It is an awesome photo."Incidentally, the photograph is similar to one by Powell photographer Richard Brady that we published in the Powell Tribune earlier this week. He traveled more than a 1,000 miles from Wyoming to take the photograph. Brady’s photo of 50 bald eagles in a single tree was taken in Canada during the Fraser Valley Bald Eagle Festival, held in November in British Columbia, Canada.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Fact check: A 3 percent conviction rate for sex crimes?
A Rock Springs lawmaker has backed off a statement he made earlier this month that only 3 percent of defendants charged with sexual crimes end up being convicted.
The House was debating a bill sponsored by Rep. Sam Krone, R-Cody, (and endorsed by the Tribune) that would have made the names of defendants charged with sex crimes public as soon as they are charged. That's how all other crimes in Wyoming are treated, but the Legislature has carved out a special exemption keeping the names of defendants in sex crime cases confidential until and unless a judge finds there's enough evidence for the case to be tried.
Rep. Mark Baker, R-Rock Springs, was one of the 34 legislators who opposed the measure and killed the bill after about a half-hour debate. They generally cited the stigma associated with being accused of a sex crime, despite not having been convicted of anything.
In listening to the Jan. 22 debate, one of Baker's statements really stood out to me:
"I heard a statistic that ... 3 percent of these cases actually lead to conviction, which is alarming to me. So if you're talking about 97 percent of these cases that don't end up in conviction, you're talking about 97 percent of people that have now been labeled and put a target on their back," he said.
Krone, a deputy Park County prosecutor, responded by asking for a source, "because I'm not familiar with that data."
A 3 percent conviction rate on sexual crimes seemed really far out of whack with what I've seen with Park County cases. (Though admittedly I don't know exactly how many cases have been thrown out at the Circuit Court level, since all those records are confidential under the law legislators voted to uphold...)
I asked Park County Attorney Bryan Skoric -- who, for the record, is Krone's boss -- for an estimate of the conviction rate for sexual crime charges in Park County.
Skoric responded: "That 3 percent number is not correct for Park County, period."
I asked Rep. Baker where he got the statistic and he responded:
None of those sources appear to speak to what percentage of criminal cases result in a conviction.
A lot of the data refers to false accusations of sexual assault, which aren't the same thing as the cases that would have been affected by the bill.
A charge in a criminal case comes only after an accuser's allegations are investigated by police and a prosecutor like Krone or Skoric believes there's enough evidence to convict the person they're charging. That's not to say the system's foolproof: the AP story cited by Baker reported on a study in Virginia that found at least 8 to 15 percent of people convicted of sexual assault were wrongfully convicted; the Fox News column cites research finding 25 percent of convictions were wrong.
In addition to providing the links, Baker noted the conviction rate wasn't his only concern with the bill. He'd argued it was unnecessary (noting judges can detain any defendants they find dangerous and arguing most defendants don't randomly grab their victims off the streets), that defendants will be permanently damaged by being publicly identified (even if the case is thrown out later) and noting defendants will ultimately be identified if a judge finds there's enough evidence for the case to proceed.
Baker raised some eyebrows on Twitter with a different statistic on Wednesday when, as he spoke in opposition to a bill that give same-sex couples the same rights as married heterosexual couples, he said only 1 percent of gay people die of natural causes.
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| Rep. Mark Baker, R-Rock Springs |
Rep. Mark Baker, R-Rock Springs, was one of the 34 legislators who opposed the measure and killed the bill after about a half-hour debate. They generally cited the stigma associated with being accused of a sex crime, despite not having been convicted of anything.
In listening to the Jan. 22 debate, one of Baker's statements really stood out to me:
"I heard a statistic that ... 3 percent of these cases actually lead to conviction, which is alarming to me. So if you're talking about 97 percent of these cases that don't end up in conviction, you're talking about 97 percent of people that have now been labeled and put a target on their back," he said.
Krone, a deputy Park County prosecutor, responded by asking for a source, "because I'm not familiar with that data."
A 3 percent conviction rate on sexual crimes seemed really far out of whack with what I've seen with Park County cases. (Though admittedly I don't know exactly how many cases have been thrown out at the Circuit Court level, since all those records are confidential under the law legislators voted to uphold...)
I asked Park County Attorney Bryan Skoric -- who, for the record, is Krone's boss -- for an estimate of the conviction rate for sexual crime charges in Park County.
Skoric responded: "That 3 percent number is not correct for Park County, period."
I asked Rep. Baker where he got the statistic and he responded:
"The statistic I quoted was a rough figure I had heard in passing and I was called on it by the sponsor of the bill. As a freshman, it is an important lesson for me to learn. To have quotable facts from sources or stick with generalities as some of the other speakers on the bill chose to do. There is a lot of research on the topic and estimates range widely. I apologize for any confusion that this may have caused."He provided several links as examples of the varying estimates: a Fox News column, a site defending a Swami accused of sexual misconduct, a survey by Stop Abusive and Violent Environments, a summary of an Associated Press story posted on a blog about false accusations, and a fact sheet from a non-profit group called Child Abuse Solutions.
None of those sources appear to speak to what percentage of criminal cases result in a conviction.
A lot of the data refers to false accusations of sexual assault, which aren't the same thing as the cases that would have been affected by the bill.
A charge in a criminal case comes only after an accuser's allegations are investigated by police and a prosecutor like Krone or Skoric believes there's enough evidence to convict the person they're charging. That's not to say the system's foolproof: the AP story cited by Baker reported on a study in Virginia that found at least 8 to 15 percent of people convicted of sexual assault were wrongfully convicted; the Fox News column cites research finding 25 percent of convictions were wrong.
In addition to providing the links, Baker noted the conviction rate wasn't his only concern with the bill. He'd argued it was unnecessary (noting judges can detain any defendants they find dangerous and arguing most defendants don't randomly grab their victims off the streets), that defendants will be permanently damaged by being publicly identified (even if the case is thrown out later) and noting defendants will ultimately be identified if a judge finds there's enough evidence for the case to proceed.
Baker raised some eyebrows on Twitter with a different statistic on Wednesday when, as he spoke in opposition to a bill that give same-sex couples the same rights as married heterosexual couples, he said only 1 percent of gay people die of natural causes.
It's total B.S. @butterbob @joshwolfson Here's some info on his (completely debunked) "source" for that stat: bit.ly/VwuquC
— Chris Merrill (@ChrisMerrillWyo) January 31, 2013
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Services available during Legislature's 2013 General Session
CHEYENNE
— The Wyoming Legislature offers a variety of services to help
Wyoming residents actively participate in the legislative process
during the upcoming 2013 General Session, which begins Tuesday, Jan. 8. Below
is a list of those services:
General
telephone messages and correspondence for legislators
If
you would like to contact a legislator directly during the session,
call the Senate receptionist at 307-777-7711 or the House
receptionist at 307-777-7852 to leave a brief message for a member.
Written mail may be directed to a designated legislator in care of
the Wyoming House or Senate, State Capitol, Cheyenne, WY, 82002. Fax
messages may be sent to a designated legislator at 307-777-5466.
Contacting
legislators by email
You
also may contact members of the Wyoming Legislature via e-mail. Many
legislators use e-mail to correspond with their constituents and
other members of the public. This is one of the most effective ways
to communicate with legislators, especially if you would like to
provide more detailed information than is available through the
various telephone services. Legislators can be contacted by email
using firstname.lastname@wyoleg.gov.
Contact information is also listed on the Legislature’s website at
www.wyoleg.gov.
Online
hotline and telephone hotline
During
the legislative session, you can recommend support for or opposition
to, a particular piece of legislation by using the online hotline. In
addition to expressing support for, or opposition to, an identified
bill, you also can leave a short comment regarding the bill. This
service is available on the Legislature’s website at
http://legisweb.state.wy.us/postcomments/onlinehotline.aspx.
Comments will be available to all legislators, but keep in mind that
legislators consider a variety of factors when making decisions on
pending legislation. The telephone hotline is also available toll
free for those without Internet access. Within Wyoming, the number is
866-996-8683. Callers will not be able to leave comments regarding a
bill. Information you provide using these services is considered a
public record.
Bill
status hotline
You
can call the Bill Status Information Service toll-free within Wyoming
at 800-342-9570 to obtain the current status of any bill in the
legislative process. This is a limited service that provides
information about where the bill is in the process, but it does not
provide information about the details of the legislation. In
addition, callers cannot leave messages for legislators at this
telephone number. This service is available on days the Legislature
is in session from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Out-of-state callers should dial
307-777-6185 for this service.
Hearing
impaired service
If
you have a hearing impairment, call the toll-free Wyoming Relay
Service for information on any bill. The number is 800-877-9965 for
TDD or text telephones. Ask the Wyoming Relay Service operator to
dial 307-777-6185 to obtain the status on bills. This service is
available to all Wyoming residents with hearing impairments.
Information
on the Legislature’s website
A
great deal of legislative information is available electronically
through the Wyoming Legislature’s website, www.wyoleg.gov.
This site also can be accessed through the state of Wyoming’s
webpage. During legislative sessions, the website will be updated
daily with important legislative information, including the text of
all introduced, engrossed, and enrolled bills; information about
amendments; a record of all roll call votes posted as soon as
possible after each vote; record of actions taken on bills; bill
status; Senate and House daily calendars; and standing committee
meeting schedules.
Streaming
audio of legislative proceedings
Live
and archived audio proceedings of the Wyoming Senate and the Wyoming
House of Representatives are available on the Wyoming Legislature’s
website. A link will be prominently displayed on the website when the
session begins that provides the option of listening to live
proceedings, if the House and Senate are convened, and an archive of
daily legislative proceedings. If you are having trouble hearing
sound on your computer when the House or Senate are in session,
please click on the Audio Troubleshooting Guide for assistance. The
system will not stream live audio when the House and Senate are
adjourned, at recess, or at ease for more than 15 minutes.
Roll
call votes
Current
technology allows the Wyoming Legislature to post roll call votes
almost in real time for floor votes. You can find out how legislators
vote on every roll-call vote taken both on the floor during this
year’s session. This information is available within several
minutes after each roll-call vote on the floor. Users should click on
the “2013 Bill Tracking Information” link on the homepage and
then on the “Roll Call Votes on Bills and Amendments” link. On
the top of the page select Floor Votes or Committee Votes from the
drop-down menu. Then, select whether you would like the votes on
House Bills or Senate Files. A list of all bills will then display on
the page. Once you have selected the bill you want to review, the
actions that were taken, as well as the day the actions were taken
will display in the main section of the page. Click on the “view”
link to see how each individual legislator voted. This electronic
voting system has been recognized by the National Conference of State
Legislatures as one of the most robust systems in the country
providing almost real-time public access to voting information for
the residents of Wyoming.
Electronic
and paper copies of legislation (House Bills and Senate Files)
The
text of each bill will be posted on the Legislature’s website as
soon as the legislation is assigned a bill number. Fiscal notes are
also included on the website, which provide information about the
fiscal impact of the bill. The text of each bill that passes one
house (called “engrossed bills”) and bills that are passed by the
Legislature (called “enrolled acts”) are posted on the site as
they are approved. Bills can be viewed by subject or sponsor. If you
do not have Internet access to obtain copies of bills, you can call
the Legislative Service Office at 307-777-7881 to request paper
copies of legislation for a minimal fee. The Office is open from 7:30
a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on days the Legislature is in session. If you need
a paper copy of a bill when you are in the Capitol, you can purchase
copies at the Legislative Service office in Room 213 of the Capitol
for 10 cents per page.
Amendments
to legislation
You
can obtain paper copies of House and Senate amendments under
consideration each day at the Legislative Service Office in Room 213
free of charge. Amendments under consideration each day are also
listed on the legislative website when they are released for
distribution. Amendments that have been adopted are compiled daily
and summaries are available in the Rotunda, the LSO main office, and
the House and Senate lobbies. Adopted House amendments are printed on
yellow paper and adopted Senate amendments are printed on green
paper.
Senate
and House schedules
Calendars
for floor proceedings in the Senate and House of Representatives will
be available on the Legislature’s website in the late afternoon for
the next day’s floor proceedings in each chamber. The calendars
include legislation under consideration and the general order of
business. Paper copies of the House and Senate calendars are
available daily in the Rotunda, the LSO main office in Room 213, and
the House and Senate lobbies. House information is printed on yellow
paper and Senate information is printed on green paper.
Standing
committee meetings
During the session, when a bill is
introduced in either the Senate or the House, it is sent to a
standing committee for review and to receive public comment. You are
welcome to attend standing committee meetings and to testify for or
against legislation. If you would like to provide written information
to the Committee, you will be requested to fill out a Committee
Handout Form at the meeting (copies of the form are also available on
the Legislature’s website). You are encouraged to e-mail an
electronic copy of your handout in advance to the LSO at:
legdocs@wyoleg.gov,
so staff can maintain an electronic archive of committee handouts. A
schedule of standing committee meetings and the bills that will be
considered by each committee for the next legislative working day
will be posted on the Legislature’s website each day in the late
afternoon. Meeting notices are also posted outside the House and
Senate lobbies and on committee doors. Paper copies of the House and
Senate standing committee meeting schedules are available daily free
of charge in the Rotunda, the LSO main office in Room 213, and the
House and Senate lobbies. House committee schedules are printed on
yellow paper and Senate committee schedules are printed on green
paper.
Bill
status information
In
addition to the Bill Status Hotline telephone service described
above, the Legislature’s website provides information regarding the
current status of each bill under consideration, as well as previous
actions on the bill (journal digest). The journal digest includes the
dates actions were taken on the bill, all roll call votes related to
the bill, and the text of all amendments offered regarding the bill.
Paper copies of bill status information are available in the Rotunda,
the LSO main office in Room 213, and the House and Senate lobbies.
This information is printed on purple paper.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
LIVE Park County election results
These are the updates the Tribune posted on election night. They are in reverse chronological order.
11:12 a.m. on 11/8. Another whoops here. After looking at the numbers in the Cody Enterprise today, I realized I mischaracterized the absentee results with regard to the Cody Mayor's race. The absentee ballots did not "really narrow" the results between Mayor Nancy Tia Brown and challenger Karen Ballinger. Brown did not do as well among those final ballots as she did among the earlier ones, but she actually gained two votes out of the 1,214 ballots that came in late. By my math, Brown received 608 votes to Ballinger's 606 -- boosting her from an 84-vote margin of victory to an 86-vote one. Sorry for the error.
2:02 a.m. Whoops. As I was driving back to Powell, I realized that after waiting all night for Meeteetse results, I forgot to post the outcome of the race for area's seat on the Northwest College Board of Trustees: Nada Larsen took 306 votes (60.6%) to Winfred Orrell's 153 (30.3%) to coast into that seat.
OK, now I think (and hope) I'm finished. Have a good night!
1:10 a.m. Not sure if anyone's still with me, but if so, we're finally done. In the races I've been tracking (including the Powell and Cody school board races) no results changed with the last batch of results, which came from the South Fork, Meeteetse and absentee voters. The only notable thing I caught is that the absentees really narrow the Cody Mayor's race -- incumbent Nancy Tia Brown appears to have won re-election by 86 votes out of 4,881 cast.
You can check out the full results now up on the county's webpage in summary or detailed form. Park County was the last of Wyoming's 23 counties to report results to the Secretary of State's office.
We'll have detailed coverage with reactions in Thursday's Tribune. Thanks to everyone who followed along!
12:15 a.m. Still working on those last absentee ballots.
11:56 p.m. We're hoping for less than 15 minutes now, though the beep-beep-beeps signal that absentee ballots keep jamming.
11:41 p.m. Here's what Powell's updated numbers did for the races we've been tracking. As a side note, I apparently lost my mind earlier while posting the percentage of the vote picked up by Commission Candidate Lee Livingston. He was at 30.5% of the vote -- not 48.3%. Sorry about that. I've fixed it below. He's at 29.83% now.
One cent tax
Against - 5,486 (58%)
For - 3,694 (39.1%)
Lodging tax
For - 7,396 (78.3%)
Against - 1,767 (18.7%)
Park County Commission
Lee Livingston - 5,637 votes (29.8%)
Bucky Hall - 4,962 votes (26.3%)
Pat Slater - 3,372 votes (17.9%)
Powell School Board
Lynn Stutzman - 1,609 votes (12.6%)
Rob McCray - 1,403 votes (10.9%)
Lisa Barrus - 1,348 votes (10.4%)
Dave Brown - 1,224 votes (9.4%)
Raquel Schwab - 1,196 votes (9.3%)
Jeff Easum - 1,094 votes (8.4%)
Greg Imhoff - 674 votes (5.2%)
Todd Voller - 381 votes (2.9%)
Alan Horner - 374 votes (2.9%)
NWC Board Powell
Jim Vogt - 2,096 (48.3%)
Martin Garhart - 1,509 (34.8%)
Races unaffected by the new Powell numbers (a re-posting)
Senate District 18
Hank Coe - 3,890 (64.8%)
Write-ins - 1,474 (24.5%)
Powell City Council Ward 3
Josh Shorb - 395 (57.5%)
Amber Yager - 203 (29.6%)
NWC Board Cody
Mark Westerhold - 3,083 (30.4%)
Paul Fees - 1,978 (19.5%)
Bob Newsome - 1,848 (18.2%)
Nothing yet for NWC Board Meeteetse
Powell Fire District Director 4
Scott Heny - 508 (54.1%)
Samuel Rodriguez - 318 (33.9%)
Cody Mayor
Nancy Tia Brown - 1,716 (48.3%)
Karen Ballinger - 1,632 (45.9%)
11:20 p.m. We're still lacking 4,000 absentee ballots, Meeteetse and the South Fork.
"Hopefully, we'll be done within an hour," said First Deputy Mike Demoney said. He said part of the issue is that there are so many absentees ballots -- particularly in the South Fork area, where some 500 absentee votes were cast.
"They're going to have over 100 percent (turnout) in that precinct, I can almost guarantee it," Demoney said.
The new numbers that just came in were for two city of Powell precincts. As I said, they didn't flip any races. I'll post updated detailed numbers for the Powell races in just a minute.
11:18 p.m. New numbers in, but it doesn't look like they change any results. The new totals wrap up Powell voting -- except for however many Powell ballots that are among the 4,000 absentees from all over the county. There were actually two Powell precincts missing (my bad) from the earlier results. In the one race that appeared possibly open to a change, the Powell school board contest, Stutzman, McCray and Barrus continue to lead. Brown now trails Barrus by 124 votes instead of 106 for that third seat on the board.
11:02 p.m. Someone asked who paid to fly out the two folks from the Secretary of State's office and the equipment manufacturer. I don't know the answer to that one, but I can ask that when I get some more detail tomorrow.
10:57 p.m. Someone asked why the county isn't posting numbers on their website. Actually, if everything's working for you like it is for me, you should be able to find the figures here as a summary by clicking here or with precinct-level detail by clicking here. I'm not sure if they've got an ETA on wrapping things up; I'll go check.
10:52 p.m. One more race that could potentially shift is the Cody school board. They've got 11 (yes, 11) candidates running for four seats. Stephanie Bell (2,145 votes), Jake Fulkerson (1,673 votes), Daniel White (1,598 votes) and Julie Snelson (1,567 votes) lead Justin Powell (1,429 votes). The other six candidates appear out of the running at this point.
10:48 p.m. To recap what we're waiting on: ballots from the western part of the city of Powell, the three Meeteetse area precincts, the South Fork, the area north of Cody (I was wrong in saying earlier it was the North Fork) and more than 4,000 absentee ballots from all around the county. I think there's only a limited number of races still in play (most specifically the Powell school board, where Jeff Easum, Raquel Schwab and Dave Brown trail Lynn Stutzman, Rob McCray and Lisa Barrus), but I'm just guessing.
In case you were wondering, it looks like Constitutional Amendments A & B, relating to Wyomingites' rights to control their own health care and to hunt, trap and fish, will pass overwhelmingly. Constitutional Amendment C, which would let court-appointed commissioners to handle more judicial business, may very well fail by a narrow margin. Statewide figures are here.
10:39 p.m. Just saw a question down below asking about how many absentees are left to be counted (sorry, it got trapped in my spam box!). "Could make a huge difference in all races!" they wrote. Indeed, there are a lot of ballots out there: more than 4,000 (couldn't get an exact number right away, but it's less than 4,200). It is possible that the absentee ballots will come in vastly different than the folks who voted today, though if I remember right, that wasn't the case in the primary. But yeah, in a close race, it could easily make a difference. And who knows what the tabulations will reveal.
10:33 p.m. Since there are still ballots out there to be counted, I think the question on everyone's mind is, "Could these results change?" Having taken a breath, here's my analysis of what races are still even remotely in play right now: two of the Powell school board seats (Lynn Stutzman appears to have a real good handle on one), the NWC Cody area seat being sought by Paul Fees and Bob Newsome and the Cody Mayor's race. Of those, the Powell school board is probably the most susceptible to a change, but even that's not necessarily going to happen.
I'd say everything else I've been reporting on is almost certainly out of reach.
We still have no results on the Meeteetse NWC race (as we don't have those troublesome Meeteetse ballots tabulated yet).
10:10 p.m. (fixed the precincts) You probably noticed that we only have 22 of 29 precincts reporting. So what's missing? It's primarily the precincts where there was ballot machine trouble: the South Fork and Meeteetse. But we also need one more from the city of Powell and the area north of Cody. Also, and perhaps most significantly, none of the absentees have been included. So some things could still change in the close races.
9:58 p.m. Whoops, left off the contested Powell fire race.
Powell Fire District Director 4
Scott Heny - 508 (54.1%)
Samuel Rodriguez - 318 (33.9%)
A couple other races of note:
Cody Mayor
Nancy Tia Brown - 1,716 (48.3%)
Karen Ballinger - 1,632 (45.9%)
Lodging tax
For - 6,806 (78.5%)
Against - 1,621 (18.7%)
9:53 p.m. Detail on those results. Bear in mind the percentages are a little off and that we're missing seven precincts, including Meeteetse.
One cent tax
Against - 5,115 (59%)
For - 3,326 (38.4%)
Park County Commission
Lee Livingston - 5,291 votes (30.5%)
Bucky Hall - 4,596 votes (26.5%)
Pat Slater - 3,029 votes (17.5%)
Senate District 18
Hank Coe - 3,890 (64.8%)
Write-ins - 1,474 (24.5%)
Powell City Council Ward 3
Josh Shorb - 395 (57.5%)
Amber Yager - 203 (29.6%)
Powell School Board
Lynn Stutzman - 1,349 votes (12.6%)
Rob McCray - 1,160 votes (10.9%)
Lisa Barrus - 1,107 votes (10.4%)
Dave Brown - 1,001 votes (9.4%)
Raquel A Schwab - 987 (9.3%)
Jeff Easum - 912 votes (9.4%)
Three others have 546 votes or fewer
NWC Board Powell
Jim Vogt - 1,740 (48.9%)
Martin Garhart - 1,176 (33.1%)
NWC Board Cody
Mark Westerhold - 3,083 (30.4%)
Paul Fees - 1,978 (19.5%)
Bob Newsome - 1,848 (18.2%)
Nothing yet for NWC Board Meeteetse
9:35 p.m. Here come results. This reflects 22 of 29 precincts. Quick takes: it's looking good for:
Bucky Hall and Lee Livingston in the Park County Commission race
Jim Vogt in the Powell NWC race; Mark Westerhold has a lock on re-election for a Cody NWC seat, while Paul Fees is leading Bob Newsome by about 140 vote for the second Cody NWC seat
Lynn Stutzman, Rob McCray and Lisa Barrus on the Powell school board
Scott Heny on the Fire Board
Josh Shorb on the Powell council.
It's looking really good for the lodging tax and bad for the 1-cent tax.
Senator Hank Coe is doing quite well, significantly outpacing write-in votes that are presumably going to Tea Party candidate Bob Berry. Cody Mayor Nancy Tia Brown has a small lead over challenger Karen Ballinger.
However, things can change as more results are tabulated. More detail in a minute.
9:24 p.m. Don't have results here yet, but updated results in Big Horn County show an even worse picture for their proposed special purpose tax (it's a proposed sixth-cent): just 30.8 percent voting in favor with 69.2 opposed. That's worse than how the West Park cap tax fared here in Park County two years ago. Of course, it's possible that the Big Horn County results aren't really applicable to the proposed fifth-cent tax here. We'll hopefully find out soon.
9:16 p.m. "They're really close," said Park County Clerk Jerri Torczon of the status of staff working on tabulating results. The clerk's office just told a caller that they're hoping for 15-20 minutes. Torczon was re-feeding the Meeteetse ballot into a machine when I spoke to her. "It just seems to take forever," she said. Torczon also said the results may all be released at once.
9:07 p.m. Fremont County voters are also mulling a proposed 1-cent tax tonight, but it doesn't look like they have any results posted online just yet.
9 p.m. While we wait for Park County, here's a look at election action in Big Horn County that may interest folks. In unofficial, incomplete Big Horn County results, a proposed sixth-cent of sales tax there is failing, 829 votes for to 1,373 against. That's just 37.8 percent of voters in favor of the tax. That could bode poorly for the fifth-cent proposal here if voters here were in a similar mood. In other news that could be relevant to Park County, Republican Nathan Winters leads Democrat Connie Skates 847 votes to 158 in House District 28. In addition to southern Big Horn County, that district also includes Meeteetse and a part of Fremont County. Constitutional Amendents A & B (about health care and hunting rights, respectively) are passing overwhelmingly, while C is also passing.
8:49 p.m. In some good news, all of the ballots have arrived here at the Park County Courthouse and have been checked in for processing. "The absentees are still being counted, but all the boxes are here," said Tami Keehn of the clerk's office. In some mostly useless news, it being past 8:40 p.m. means this will be the latest that first results have been made available in a while.
8:37 p.m. Clerk Jerri Torczon just stopped by to visit with the media folks here. "They're still working on it. Sorry," she said. Torczon described the hold-up as being a problem with two voting machines' cards that aren't working correctly. Those two cards are throwing things off, Torczon said. She said it may be tied to reprogramming that had to be done earlier. Sorry for the rough explanation, but I'll have to sort out details tomorrow, when everybody has more time to chat and things have been sorted out. For now, we'll wait a bit more. "Hopefully just a while," Torczon said.
8:30 p.m. Powell's ballots have arrived here. No results yet. No ETA.
8:20 p.m. Elections staff are working their tails off to get results tabulated. I have seen their frenzied efforts firsthand. Meanwhile, the Casper Star Tribune just reported that "recounts" are required with the machines that were incorrectly processing ballots in the South Fork and Meeteetse areas earlier today. I just checked with a very busy First Deputy Mike Demoney who clarified that recount, in this sense, means only that: the ballots are going to be re-run through the machines. It's not a recount in the Florida 2000 sense of counting ballots by hand and squinting election judges trying to determine voters' intent. Ballots are still continuing to file in, including just-arrived ones from Clark.
8:14 p.m. Despite not a single result having been tabulated from Park County, Wyoming's races have already been called for Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and U.S. Rep. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo. I'm trying to get an update on what's going on here.
7:53 p.m. No results yet. Sorry. But when they are available, they'll not only be available here, but also on the county's elections webpage. Last time, the Tribune got and posted the results before the county had them up, but it depends on the election. At the state level, results can be found on the the Secretary of State's site. They'll be the slowest in posting Park County's results.
7:47 p.m. One thing to remember while we wait: it will almost certainly be Cody area results we receive first. We'll likely get a good idea about how the Park County Commission race is going and how the 1-cent and lodging taxes are faring, but we'll have to wait on any results for, say, the Powell school board race. For now, we wait on all the races.
7:42 p.m. Hello from the Park County Courthouse, where ballots are beginning to arrive for processing and counting. Clerk Jerri Torczon said four or five precincts' ballots are already here, but none have been run through the machines just yet.
Though predicting voter turnout early on election day is a risky, uncertain business, the early prediction here in Park County is that turnout today has been strong. The Park County Clerk's office printed enough ballots to cover 130 percent turnout, and First Deputy Mike Demoney said earlier today that it appears turnout was approaching that figure in some areas.
Demoney used phrases like "wow" in describing the need to print more ballots and form, specifically describing running out of voter registration forms. It's the registration of new voters (and no, not dead voters rising from the grave) that boosts turnout over 100 percent. That's because turnout is calculated based on the number of votes cast divided by the number of voters registered prior to today. And yes, 130 percent is a really, really cautious figure (Teton County printed 105 percent and ran out in some precincts today, the Jackson Hole News and Guide reports).
7 p.m. Good evening! The polls are closing here in Park County.
For those of you dying to start seeing the results, you're probably wondering: when are we going to start getting results, and when will things wrap up tonight?
Park County Clerk Jerri Torczon indicated earlier today that absentee-counting could go late tonight. There's no way to know for sure what will happen until we get there, but here's how results came in and wrapped up over the last five elections:
There have been some problems today with machines today in Park County. Voting machines in the South Fork and the Meeteetse areas each ran into trouble reading ballots today (we'll give you the more detailed explanation of the reasons why in Thursday's Tribune). Long story short, the clerk's office got the South Fork machine squared away this afternoon, but the one in Meeteetse is still having problems. The issues prompted the Secretary of State's Office to fly a technician and a staffer from Cheyenne to Cody this afternoon, the Casper Star Tribune reported. From the Star Tribune:
Deputy Secretary of State Pat Arp told (reporter Joan) Barron she sent the two employees as a precaution because of the tight presidential election and a sensitive Cody state Senate race. Arp said they probably can just reset and test the machines.
Arp was referring to Senate District 18, where incumbent Sen. Hank Coe, R-Cody, is facing a spirited write-in challenge from Tea Party organizer Bob Berry of Cody. That's a rematch of a primary Coe won by just 117 votes.
I'll get started in earnest around 7:30 p.m. In the meantime, here are a couple ground rules for what I'll be posting tonight:
-- Since it's assumed that Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, U.S. Sen. John Barrasso and U.S. Rep. Cynthia Lummis will win Park County, I'll only be posting percentages for those races. (That should allow me to get to the in-doubt contests more quickly.)
--Unless something weird happens, I won't be mentioning results for these uncontested races. You can pretty much put these folks in the book as winners right now. An asterisk (*) denotes incumbents.
Powell City Council
Mayor: Don Hillman
Ward I: Jim Hillberry* and Eric Paul*
Ward II: Floyd Young*
State Legislature
House District 24: Sam Krone*, R-Cody
House District 25: Dave Blevins, R-Powell
House District 26: Elaine Harvey*, R-Lovell
House District 50: David Northrup, R-Powell
Special Districts
Powell Valley Hospital Board: Bonita Katz, Deb Kleinfeldt* and Larry Parker*
Powell Fire District 2 Director: Roger Easum*
Crown Hill Cemetery District: Judy Jones*, Ben Keller* and Bill Metzler*
Powell-Clarks Fork Conservation District: Floyd Derry* and Shane Smith*
11:12 a.m. on 11/8. Another whoops here. After looking at the numbers in the Cody Enterprise today, I realized I mischaracterized the absentee results with regard to the Cody Mayor's race. The absentee ballots did not "really narrow" the results between Mayor Nancy Tia Brown and challenger Karen Ballinger. Brown did not do as well among those final ballots as she did among the earlier ones, but she actually gained two votes out of the 1,214 ballots that came in late. By my math, Brown received 608 votes to Ballinger's 606 -- boosting her from an 84-vote margin of victory to an 86-vote one. Sorry for the error.
2:02 a.m. Whoops. As I was driving back to Powell, I realized that after waiting all night for Meeteetse results, I forgot to post the outcome of the race for area's seat on the Northwest College Board of Trustees: Nada Larsen took 306 votes (60.6%) to Winfred Orrell's 153 (30.3%) to coast into that seat.
OK, now I think (and hope) I'm finished. Have a good night!
1:10 a.m. Not sure if anyone's still with me, but if so, we're finally done. In the races I've been tracking (including the Powell and Cody school board races) no results changed with the last batch of results, which came from the South Fork, Meeteetse and absentee voters. The only notable thing I caught is that the absentees really narrow the Cody Mayor's race -- incumbent Nancy Tia Brown appears to have won re-election by 86 votes out of 4,881 cast.
You can check out the full results now up on the county's webpage in summary or detailed form. Park County was the last of Wyoming's 23 counties to report results to the Secretary of State's office.
We'll have detailed coverage with reactions in Thursday's Tribune. Thanks to everyone who followed along!
12:15 a.m. Still working on those last absentee ballots.
11:56 p.m. We're hoping for less than 15 minutes now, though the beep-beep-beeps signal that absentee ballots keep jamming.
11:41 p.m. Here's what Powell's updated numbers did for the races we've been tracking. As a side note, I apparently lost my mind earlier while posting the percentage of the vote picked up by Commission Candidate Lee Livingston. He was at 30.5% of the vote -- not 48.3%. Sorry about that. I've fixed it below. He's at 29.83% now.
One cent tax
Against - 5,486 (58%)
For - 3,694 (39.1%)
Lodging tax
For - 7,396 (78.3%)
Against - 1,767 (18.7%)
Park County Commission
Lee Livingston - 5,637 votes (29.8%)
Bucky Hall - 4,962 votes (26.3%)
Pat Slater - 3,372 votes (17.9%)
Powell School Board
Lynn Stutzman - 1,609 votes (12.6%)
Rob McCray - 1,403 votes (10.9%)
Lisa Barrus - 1,348 votes (10.4%)
Dave Brown - 1,224 votes (9.4%)
Raquel Schwab - 1,196 votes (9.3%)
Jeff Easum - 1,094 votes (8.4%)
Greg Imhoff - 674 votes (5.2%)
Todd Voller - 381 votes (2.9%)
Alan Horner - 374 votes (2.9%)
NWC Board Powell
Jim Vogt - 2,096 (48.3%)
Martin Garhart - 1,509 (34.8%)
Races unaffected by the new Powell numbers (a re-posting)
Senate District 18
Hank Coe - 3,890 (64.8%)
Write-ins - 1,474 (24.5%)
Powell City Council Ward 3
Josh Shorb - 395 (57.5%)
Amber Yager - 203 (29.6%)
NWC Board Cody
Mark Westerhold - 3,083 (30.4%)
Paul Fees - 1,978 (19.5%)
Bob Newsome - 1,848 (18.2%)
Nothing yet for NWC Board Meeteetse
Powell Fire District Director 4
Scott Heny - 508 (54.1%)
Samuel Rodriguez - 318 (33.9%)
Cody Mayor
Nancy Tia Brown - 1,716 (48.3%)
Karen Ballinger - 1,632 (45.9%)
11:20 p.m. We're still lacking 4,000 absentee ballots, Meeteetse and the South Fork.
"Hopefully, we'll be done within an hour," said First Deputy Mike Demoney said. He said part of the issue is that there are so many absentees ballots -- particularly in the South Fork area, where some 500 absentee votes were cast.
"They're going to have over 100 percent (turnout) in that precinct, I can almost guarantee it," Demoney said.
The new numbers that just came in were for two city of Powell precincts. As I said, they didn't flip any races. I'll post updated detailed numbers for the Powell races in just a minute.
11:18 p.m. New numbers in, but it doesn't look like they change any results. The new totals wrap up Powell voting -- except for however many Powell ballots that are among the 4,000 absentees from all over the county. There were actually two Powell precincts missing (my bad) from the earlier results. In the one race that appeared possibly open to a change, the Powell school board contest, Stutzman, McCray and Barrus continue to lead. Brown now trails Barrus by 124 votes instead of 106 for that third seat on the board.
11:02 p.m. Someone asked who paid to fly out the two folks from the Secretary of State's office and the equipment manufacturer. I don't know the answer to that one, but I can ask that when I get some more detail tomorrow.
10:57 p.m. Someone asked why the county isn't posting numbers on their website. Actually, if everything's working for you like it is for me, you should be able to find the figures here as a summary by clicking here or with precinct-level detail by clicking here. I'm not sure if they've got an ETA on wrapping things up; I'll go check.
10:52 p.m. One more race that could potentially shift is the Cody school board. They've got 11 (yes, 11) candidates running for four seats. Stephanie Bell (2,145 votes), Jake Fulkerson (1,673 votes), Daniel White (1,598 votes) and Julie Snelson (1,567 votes) lead Justin Powell (1,429 votes). The other six candidates appear out of the running at this point.
10:48 p.m. To recap what we're waiting on: ballots from the western part of the city of Powell, the three Meeteetse area precincts, the South Fork, the area north of Cody (I was wrong in saying earlier it was the North Fork) and more than 4,000 absentee ballots from all around the county. I think there's only a limited number of races still in play (most specifically the Powell school board, where Jeff Easum, Raquel Schwab and Dave Brown trail Lynn Stutzman, Rob McCray and Lisa Barrus), but I'm just guessing.
In case you were wondering, it looks like Constitutional Amendments A & B, relating to Wyomingites' rights to control their own health care and to hunt, trap and fish, will pass overwhelmingly. Constitutional Amendment C, which would let court-appointed commissioners to handle more judicial business, may very well fail by a narrow margin. Statewide figures are here.
10:39 p.m. Just saw a question down below asking about how many absentees are left to be counted (sorry, it got trapped in my spam box!). "Could make a huge difference in all races!" they wrote. Indeed, there are a lot of ballots out there: more than 4,000 (couldn't get an exact number right away, but it's less than 4,200). It is possible that the absentee ballots will come in vastly different than the folks who voted today, though if I remember right, that wasn't the case in the primary. But yeah, in a close race, it could easily make a difference. And who knows what the tabulations will reveal.
10:33 p.m. Since there are still ballots out there to be counted, I think the question on everyone's mind is, "Could these results change?" Having taken a breath, here's my analysis of what races are still even remotely in play right now: two of the Powell school board seats (Lynn Stutzman appears to have a real good handle on one), the NWC Cody area seat being sought by Paul Fees and Bob Newsome and the Cody Mayor's race. Of those, the Powell school board is probably the most susceptible to a change, but even that's not necessarily going to happen.
I'd say everything else I've been reporting on is almost certainly out of reach.
We still have no results on the Meeteetse NWC race (as we don't have those troublesome Meeteetse ballots tabulated yet).
10:10 p.m. (fixed the precincts) You probably noticed that we only have 22 of 29 precincts reporting. So what's missing? It's primarily the precincts where there was ballot machine trouble: the South Fork and Meeteetse. But we also need one more from the city of Powell and the area north of Cody. Also, and perhaps most significantly, none of the absentees have been included. So some things could still change in the close races.
9:58 p.m. Whoops, left off the contested Powell fire race.
Powell Fire District Director 4
Scott Heny - 508 (54.1%)
Samuel Rodriguez - 318 (33.9%)
A couple other races of note:
Cody Mayor
Nancy Tia Brown - 1,716 (48.3%)
Karen Ballinger - 1,632 (45.9%)
Lodging tax
For - 6,806 (78.5%)
Against - 1,621 (18.7%)
9:53 p.m. Detail on those results. Bear in mind the percentages are a little off and that we're missing seven precincts, including Meeteetse.
One cent tax
Against - 5,115 (59%)
For - 3,326 (38.4%)
Park County Commission
Lee Livingston - 5,291 votes (30.5%)
Bucky Hall - 4,596 votes (26.5%)
Pat Slater - 3,029 votes (17.5%)
Senate District 18
Hank Coe - 3,890 (64.8%)
Write-ins - 1,474 (24.5%)
Powell City Council Ward 3
Josh Shorb - 395 (57.5%)
Amber Yager - 203 (29.6%)
Powell School Board
Lynn Stutzman - 1,349 votes (12.6%)
Rob McCray - 1,160 votes (10.9%)
Lisa Barrus - 1,107 votes (10.4%)
Dave Brown - 1,001 votes (9.4%)
Raquel A Schwab - 987 (9.3%)
Jeff Easum - 912 votes (9.4%)
Three others have 546 votes or fewer
NWC Board Powell
Jim Vogt - 1,740 (48.9%)
Martin Garhart - 1,176 (33.1%)
NWC Board Cody
Mark Westerhold - 3,083 (30.4%)
Paul Fees - 1,978 (19.5%)
Bob Newsome - 1,848 (18.2%)
Nothing yet for NWC Board Meeteetse
9:35 p.m. Here come results. This reflects 22 of 29 precincts. Quick takes: it's looking good for:
Bucky Hall and Lee Livingston in the Park County Commission race
Jim Vogt in the Powell NWC race; Mark Westerhold has a lock on re-election for a Cody NWC seat, while Paul Fees is leading Bob Newsome by about 140 vote for the second Cody NWC seat
Lynn Stutzman, Rob McCray and Lisa Barrus on the Powell school board
Scott Heny on the Fire Board
Josh Shorb on the Powell council.
It's looking really good for the lodging tax and bad for the 1-cent tax.
Senator Hank Coe is doing quite well, significantly outpacing write-in votes that are presumably going to Tea Party candidate Bob Berry. Cody Mayor Nancy Tia Brown has a small lead over challenger Karen Ballinger.
However, things can change as more results are tabulated. More detail in a minute.
9:24 p.m. Don't have results here yet, but updated results in Big Horn County show an even worse picture for their proposed special purpose tax (it's a proposed sixth-cent): just 30.8 percent voting in favor with 69.2 opposed. That's worse than how the West Park cap tax fared here in Park County two years ago. Of course, it's possible that the Big Horn County results aren't really applicable to the proposed fifth-cent tax here. We'll hopefully find out soon.
9:16 p.m. "They're really close," said Park County Clerk Jerri Torczon of the status of staff working on tabulating results. The clerk's office just told a caller that they're hoping for 15-20 minutes. Torczon was re-feeding the Meeteetse ballot into a machine when I spoke to her. "It just seems to take forever," she said. Torczon also said the results may all be released at once.
9:07 p.m. Fremont County voters are also mulling a proposed 1-cent tax tonight, but it doesn't look like they have any results posted online just yet.
9 p.m. While we wait for Park County, here's a look at election action in Big Horn County that may interest folks. In unofficial, incomplete Big Horn County results, a proposed sixth-cent of sales tax there is failing, 829 votes for to 1,373 against. That's just 37.8 percent of voters in favor of the tax. That could bode poorly for the fifth-cent proposal here if voters here were in a similar mood. In other news that could be relevant to Park County, Republican Nathan Winters leads Democrat Connie Skates 847 votes to 158 in House District 28. In addition to southern Big Horn County, that district also includes Meeteetse and a part of Fremont County. Constitutional Amendents A & B (about health care and hunting rights, respectively) are passing overwhelmingly, while C is also passing.
8:49 p.m. In some good news, all of the ballots have arrived here at the Park County Courthouse and have been checked in for processing. "The absentees are still being counted, but all the boxes are here," said Tami Keehn of the clerk's office. In some mostly useless news, it being past 8:40 p.m. means this will be the latest that first results have been made available in a while.
8:37 p.m. Clerk Jerri Torczon just stopped by to visit with the media folks here. "They're still working on it. Sorry," she said. Torczon described the hold-up as being a problem with two voting machines' cards that aren't working correctly. Those two cards are throwing things off, Torczon said. She said it may be tied to reprogramming that had to be done earlier. Sorry for the rough explanation, but I'll have to sort out details tomorrow, when everybody has more time to chat and things have been sorted out. For now, we'll wait a bit more. "Hopefully just a while," Torczon said.
8:30 p.m. Powell's ballots have arrived here. No results yet. No ETA.
8:20 p.m. Elections staff are working their tails off to get results tabulated. I have seen their frenzied efforts firsthand. Meanwhile, the Casper Star Tribune just reported that "recounts" are required with the machines that were incorrectly processing ballots in the South Fork and Meeteetse areas earlier today. I just checked with a very busy First Deputy Mike Demoney who clarified that recount, in this sense, means only that: the ballots are going to be re-run through the machines. It's not a recount in the Florida 2000 sense of counting ballots by hand and squinting election judges trying to determine voters' intent. Ballots are still continuing to file in, including just-arrived ones from Clark.
8:14 p.m. Despite not a single result having been tabulated from Park County, Wyoming's races have already been called for Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and U.S. Rep. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo. I'm trying to get an update on what's going on here.
7:53 p.m. No results yet. Sorry. But when they are available, they'll not only be available here, but also on the county's elections webpage. Last time, the Tribune got and posted the results before the county had them up, but it depends on the election. At the state level, results can be found on the the Secretary of State's site. They'll be the slowest in posting Park County's results.
7:47 p.m. One thing to remember while we wait: it will almost certainly be Cody area results we receive first. We'll likely get a good idea about how the Park County Commission race is going and how the 1-cent and lodging taxes are faring, but we'll have to wait on any results for, say, the Powell school board race. For now, we wait on all the races.
7:42 p.m. Hello from the Park County Courthouse, where ballots are beginning to arrive for processing and counting. Clerk Jerri Torczon said four or five precincts' ballots are already here, but none have been run through the machines just yet.
Though predicting voter turnout early on election day is a risky, uncertain business, the early prediction here in Park County is that turnout today has been strong. The Park County Clerk's office printed enough ballots to cover 130 percent turnout, and First Deputy Mike Demoney said earlier today that it appears turnout was approaching that figure in some areas.
Demoney used phrases like "wow" in describing the need to print more ballots and form, specifically describing running out of voter registration forms. It's the registration of new voters (and no, not dead voters rising from the grave) that boosts turnout over 100 percent. That's because turnout is calculated based on the number of votes cast divided by the number of voters registered prior to today. And yes, 130 percent is a really, really cautious figure (Teton County printed 105 percent and ran out in some precincts today, the Jackson Hole News and Guide reports).
7 p.m. Good evening! The polls are closing here in Park County.
For those of you dying to start seeing the results, you're probably wondering: when are we going to start getting results, and when will things wrap up tonight?
Park County Clerk Jerri Torczon indicated earlier today that absentee-counting could go late tonight. There's no way to know for sure what will happen until we get there, but here's how results came in and wrapped up over the last five elections:
| First results | Last results | |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 Primary | 8:14 p.m. | 9:41 p.m. |
| 2008 General | 8:10 p.m. | 10:00 p.m. |
| 2010 Primary | 8:40 p.m. | 10:45 p.m. |
| 2010 General | 7:53 p.m. | 8:49 p.m. |
| 2012 Primary | 8:26 p.m. | 11:38 p.m. |
There have been some problems today with machines today in Park County. Voting machines in the South Fork and the Meeteetse areas each ran into trouble reading ballots today (we'll give you the more detailed explanation of the reasons why in Thursday's Tribune). Long story short, the clerk's office got the South Fork machine squared away this afternoon, but the one in Meeteetse is still having problems. The issues prompted the Secretary of State's Office to fly a technician and a staffer from Cheyenne to Cody this afternoon, the Casper Star Tribune reported. From the Star Tribune:
Deputy Secretary of State Pat Arp told (reporter Joan) Barron she sent the two employees as a precaution because of the tight presidential election and a sensitive Cody state Senate race. Arp said they probably can just reset and test the machines.
I'll get started in earnest around 7:30 p.m. In the meantime, here are a couple ground rules for what I'll be posting tonight:
-- Since it's assumed that Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, U.S. Sen. John Barrasso and U.S. Rep. Cynthia Lummis will win Park County, I'll only be posting percentages for those races. (That should allow me to get to the in-doubt contests more quickly.)
--Unless something weird happens, I won't be mentioning results for these uncontested races. You can pretty much put these folks in the book as winners right now. An asterisk (*) denotes incumbents.
Powell City Council
Mayor: Don Hillman
Ward I: Jim Hillberry* and Eric Paul*
Ward II: Floyd Young*
State Legislature
House District 24: Sam Krone*, R-Cody
House District 25: Dave Blevins, R-Powell
House District 26: Elaine Harvey*, R-Lovell
House District 50: David Northrup, R-Powell
Special Districts
Powell Valley Hospital Board: Bonita Katz, Deb Kleinfeldt* and Larry Parker*
Powell Fire District 2 Director: Roger Easum*
Crown Hill Cemetery District: Judy Jones*, Ben Keller* and Bill Metzler*
Powell-Clarks Fork Conservation District: Floyd Derry* and Shane Smith*
Monday, October 8, 2012
Amber Alert canceled -- Child located
Authorities have canceled an Amber Alert issued earlier this evening for a Cody youth. Authorities announced via the Emergency Broadcast System that the child had been located.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Watch author Obert Skye in Cody
Best-selling children's author Obert Skye came to Park County last week, visiting area schools, signing books, speaking at the Powell and Cody libraries and taking questions from his readers.
In case you missed him, here's a video of Skye speaking at the Park County Library in Cody:
Thanks to the Park County Library for posting and sharing the video!
In case you missed him, here's a video of Skye speaking at the Park County Library in Cody:
Thanks to the Park County Library for posting and sharing the video!
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