The ballots are all counted, but at least one race in Wythe County may have to be counted again.
In the four-person School Board at-large race, Julia Tomiak, as of a week past Election Day, holds a four-vote lead with 2,049 votes to Mack Pruett’s 2,045.
The Voter Registrar’s office certified the election on Tuesday; however, Preutt could request a recount. He has 10 days to make the request and if one is triggered, the tally could take up to another 10 days.
In another close race, the official count shows incumbent Treasurer Lori Guynn beating Lisa Shelton by 282 votes. Guynn had trailed earlier on Election Night counts, but appears to have been put over the top by early voting.
The rest of the races were much less hotly contested and sometimes not at all. A case in point is the open School Board seat that had no one running. Write-in votes put Chalmer Frye back on the board for another term.
Incumbent Moe Musser received 98 percent vote in the Circuit Court Clerk race. Incumbent Mike Jones received 98 percent, too, in the commonwealth’s attorney’s race, and Sheriff Charles Foster got 98 percent in his uncontested race.
Adam Linkous won the Commissioner of Revenue post with 63 percent of the vote.
In the Board of Supervisors races, Stacy Terry returned to the board with 77 percent of the vote. Fellow incumbents Rolland Cook and Jamie Smith also won re-election with 97 percent and 98 percent of the vote, respectively. Dickie Morgan claimed the Zion Precinct seat with 56 percent of the vote.
