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February 6, 2008


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Clinton, Huckabee Win Carroll County

HUNTINGDON (February 5) – Hillary Clinton and Mike Huckabee garnered the most votes in the Democratic and Republican primaries in Carroll County in the Super Tuesday elections. Huckabee edged McCain by a mere two votes in the county election.

Huckabee received 767 votes and McCain received 765. Results for other Republican candidates are: Rudy Giuliani 17, Duncan Hunter 2, Alan Keyes 3, Ron Paul 93, Mitt Romney 324, Tom Tancredo 1, Fred Thompson 65, and uncommitted 4.

In the Democratic primary, Clinton received 1,982 votes, Barack Obama received 709, Joe Biden 9, Chris Dodd 6, John Edwards 157, Mike Gravel 1, Dennis Kucinich 5, Bill Richardson 1, and uncommitted 5.

Nationwide, Clinton is the presumed leader in the Democratic race and McCain is the leader in the Republican race.

Total votes cast in Carroll County were: Democratic – 2,875; and Republican – 2,041.

Election officials in Carroll County expected an uneventful day with so few voters participating in the election. However, the severe weather, including high winds and tornado warnings, delayed the voting returns.

At one point, at the instruction of Janice Newman, director of the Carroll County Emergency Management Agency, election officials sought refuge in the inner-most hallway of the Carroll County Office Complex. The National Weather Service contacted Newman advising a tornado was approaching Huntingdon. It was the first of two significant weather fronts to move through the area. Fortunately, Carroll County only suffered minor damage.

The Yuma precinct was the last to be tallied. Linda Radford, administrator of elections, drove to Clarksburg to retrieve the voting machine from one of the Yuma poll workers. Radford said the poll workers had sought refuge from the storm in the basement of a church. Yuma has been hit twice in recent years by devastating tornado.

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