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Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Voting results on Web, phone

Updated voting results on Hancock County primary election races for commissioner, sheriff, coroner and treasurer will be available tonight on The Courier's Web site and at The Courier's InfoLINE telephone service.

Voting results on tax proposals by the Hancock Park District, and by the McComb, Arcadia and Van Buren school districts also will be updated on these two sites.

The Hancock County vote in the presidential primary also will be listed.

The newspaper's Web site is www.thecourier.com

InfoLINE can be reached by calling 419-421-8888, then dialing 7700 to get election results.

At both places, The Courier will provide results tonight on these primary election races and issues:

• The Hancock County commissioner race between Republicans Ed Ingold and Robert Kuhlman.

• The Hancock County commissioner contest between Republicans Brad Griffin, Steve Oman and Emily Walton.

• The Hancock County sheriff race between Republicans Mike Heldman and Tom Renninger.

• The Hancock County coroner contest between two Republicans, Dr. Mark Fox and Dr. John Ziegler.

• The Hancock County treasurer race between Republicans Carl Moses, Larry Settlemire and Steve Welton.

• The Hancock County vote in the presidential primary. Republicans still running are Mike Huckabee, John McCain and Ron Paul. Democrats still running are Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

• Hancock Park District's request that voters approve its 0.8-mill replacement levy.

• McComb School District's bid for a 5.7-mill bond issue to pay for renovations and additions at the McComb building.

• Arcadia School District's request that voters renew a 6.4-mill emergency levy.

• Van Buren School District's request that voters renew a 5.2-mill emergency levy.

The primary election polls will close today at 7:30 p.m. First vote results should be available between 8 and 9 p.m.

Voting results will be steadily updated as they are released by the Hancock County Board of Elections, until the vote count is done.

As always, complete voting results on races and issues in Hancock and surrounding counties will appear in Wednesday morning's edition of The Courier and on The Courier's Web site.

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