Update: 2024 Presidential Election Results
Exhaustive results from November 5 for Elberta and Gilmore Township
Gilmore/Elberta went 218 for Harris/Walz and 179 for Trump/Vance. Elissa Slotkin beat Mike Rogers decisively 220 to 170, and Callie Barr surpassed Jack Bergman 220 to 175. John Roth rewon his state legislature seat with 175 votes to Larry Knight’s 159, with independent candidate Cathy Albro making a decent showing considering all the straight ticket votes, at 53.
In aggregate, we liked the Jail Millage and the EMS Millage but not the Road Commission’s new building. We voted for John Mead. Gary Sauer beat Javed Shah by just 4 votes for District 7’s county commission seat.
But that’s just in our little district of 708 registered voters, 405 of whom voted.
All the Gilmore candidates (uncontested seats) got enough votes to be elected.
The Village elected Brett McGregor and Ryan Fiebing to four more years on the board of trustees. Kenneth Holmes got 13 write-in votes, but 12 of those voters wrote “Ken Holmes” instead of “Kenneth” and the decision now goes to the Board of Canvassers to decide whether all those votes count. He needs three votes, I think, to win be re-elected. Write-ins: They’re tricky—for voters, candidates, and election workers. More on that and other details later!
3 AM UPDATE (I made a chart! took a while. If you would like to use the chart below as a template for your own community election results chart, email me and I’ll send you the Word doc.)
Thank you to our election workers: Dave Bissell (Gilmore Clerk), Joni Hennard, Dianne Braybrook, Carol Lee, Becky Addis, and Barbara Drew. I watched them carefully and thoroughly search for all the write-ins that the machine had logged and check for the ones that were valid. Out of 80 write-in bubbles filled, only 13 could be considered, because only one of the write-in candidates that people voted for (Kenneth Holmes) had submitted the write-in paperwork. There were a couple of other races that had valid write-in candidates, but no one voted for those, or if they did, they marked the oval but didn’t write the name. You have to fill in the oval AND write the name, and the name you write in has to match what the candidate put when they filed their paperwork. So, all told, our election workers spent a good half hour or so going through every ballot to check for write-ins and double-checking whether they were valid or not. Just remember that when you’re lodging a goofy or protest vote for an unofficial (or imaginary) candidate. I wouldn’t want to be an election worker in a bigger place. This is probably one reason why tabulation takes so long.
We’ll have to wait and see what the Board of Canvassers say about the 12 votes for “Ken Holmes.” Other winners are highlighted below in yellow.
