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ELKINS Elkins City Clerk Jessica Sutton took a moment during this week’s Elkins City Council meeting to address the reasons why counting the ballots in Tuesday’s municipal election took “significantly longer” than on past election nights.
The election totals were not released by the city until 1 a.m. Wednesday morning, and no results from any wards were posted until well after 11 p.m. Tuesday. The polls closed at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
“After hearing a number of inaccurate comments surrounding the election and recognizing that a majority of people don’t have the benefit of insight that election officials and poll workers have, I wanted to provide a brief overview of what election day in Elkins looks like from the inside,” Sutton said in reading from a prepared statement during Thursday night’s city council meeting.
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ELKINS –Elkins City Clerk Jessica Sutton declined to comment Friday on whether she would seek the position of city manager if voters approve a city charter change in Tuesday’s election that would allow for the creation of a city manager post.
Elkins businessman Mark Doak has been running advertisements in The Inter-Mountain in recent weeks in support of the proposed charter change, and his letter to the editor saying Elkins needs a city manager ran in the Feb. 20 edition of The Inter-Mountain.
During an Elkins City Council meeting in September, Doak suggested that Sutton would be the best choice to fill the city manager position.