Month: November 2010

By The Associated Press • November 4, 2010

OAKLAND, Md. — Garrett County voters have fulfilled the wish of a county commissioner candidate who passed away 12 days before the election.

The local election board said Thursday that Republican Bob Gatto won a write-in campaign to succeed the late Dennis Glotfelty on the board of commissioners.
Glotfelty was a Republican whose name remained on the ballot despite his death. Local GOP officials initially urged people to vote for Glotfelty so the party could nominate his successor after the election.

The party later endorsed write-in candidate Gatto, the runner-up in the GOP primary. Glotfelty’s family says that was what Glotfelty wanted.

Gatto got more than 4,000 votes, Democrat Bill Welch got about 2,600 and Glotfelty got nearly 1,800.

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Nov. 4, 2010

Local political history was made this week, as a write-in candidate actually won an election, specifically the Garrett County District 3 commissioner’s race.

Official write-in Republican contender Bob Gatto received more than 4,000 of the 4,352 write-in votes that were cast in Tuesday’s general election.

Republican Tim Thomas and Democrat George Falter, together, received the remainder of those write-in votes.

Democrat Bill Welch had 2,603 votes, or about 30 percent, and the late Commissioner Denny Glotfelty, a Republican, garnered 1,755 votes, or 20 percent, in the District 3 race.

After ballots were cast on Tuesday, Garrett County Board of Elections judges only knew the number of write-in votes that were cast in that race. They did not know exactly who received how many of those votes until after they canvassed the ballots line by line. That procedure began at 10 a.m. this morning (Thursday, Nov. 4).

Board director Steve Fratz announced the results at noon today.

Glotfelty defeated Gatto, Thomas, and Louis Newcomb in the September primary. The one-term incumbent received about 41 percent of the votes, while Gatto had 32 percent, Newcomb had 16 percent, and Thomas had 11 percent of the Republican votes.

On the Democratic side, Welch defeated Falter by garnering 76 percent of his party’s primary votes.

Glotfelty died on Oct. 21, leaving a quandary for the Garrett County Republican Central Committee and local voters. Since the candidate’s death occurred so closely to the general election, Glotfelty’s name could not actually be removed from printed absentee and electronic ballots. In addition, the committee had only a few hours to come up with a Republican candidate who would essentially replace Glotfelty. Rather than “hastily making such a decision” about filling such “big shoes,” the committee asked residents to vote for Glotfelty “one more time” to show their support for him.

After receiving the support of the Glotfelty family, Gatto filed as a write-in candidate on Oct. 25. Following that endorsement and some public backlash for their previous lack of action, the current central committee backed Gatto.

Thomas filed as a write-in on Oct. 26, and Falter filed on Sept. 27.

There were no major surprises in other local races, as Republican candidates easily defeated their Democratic challengers. Registered GOP voters outnumber Democrats by about three to one in Garrett County.

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Results of the general election can be found here:

http://garrettcounty.org/Elections/2010General.aspx

FULL RESULTS:

Election Summary Report
Gubernatorial General Elections
State of Maryland, Garrett County
November 2, 2010
Summary For Jurisdiction Wide, All Counters, All Races
UNOFFICIAL RESULTS
Absentee 1 11/04/10
14:43:08

Registered Voters 18434 – Cards Cast 9739 52.83% Num. Reporting 21

GOVERNOR / LT. GOVERNOR
Total
Precincts Reporting 21

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O’Malley-Brown DEM 2493 25.90%
Ehrlich-Kane REP 6902 71.71%
Gaztanaga-McNeil LIB 85 0.88%
Allwine-Eidel GRN 58 0.60%
Knowles-Hargadon CON 78 0.81%
Write-in Votes 9 0.09%

COMPTROLLER
Total
Precincts Reporting 21

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Franchot, Peter DEM 2649 29.46%
Campbell, William H. REP 6340 70.51%
Write-in Votes 2 0.02%

ATTORNEY GENERAL
Total
Precincts Reporting 21

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Gansler, Douglas F. DEM 4955 98.29%
Write-in Votes 86 1.71%

U.S. SENATOR
Total
Precincts Reporting 21

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Mikulski, Barbara A. DEM 3324 35.73%
Wargotz, Eric REP 5693 61.20%
Henry, Kenniss GRN 117 1.26%
Shawver, Richard Ala CON 160 1.72%
Write-in Votes 8 0.09%

U.S. CONGRESS 6
Total
Precincts Reporting 21

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Duck, Andrew DEM 2252 23.88%
Bartlett, Roscoe G. REP 6804 72.16%
Massey, Dan LIB 197 2.09%
Reed, Michael CON 176 1.87%
Write-in Votes 0 0.00%

STATE SENATOR 1
Total
Precincts Reporting 21

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Edwards, George C. REP 8545 99.58%
Write-in Votes 36 0.42%

HOUSE OF DELEGATES 1A
Total
Precincts Reporting 21

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Stanton, James R. DEM 2835 29.91%
Beitzel, Wendell R. REP 6629 69.93%
Write-in Votes 16 0.17%

COUNTY COMMISSIONER 1
Total
Precincts Reporting 21

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Robison, Eric V DEM 2119 23.06%
Crawford, Gregan T. REP 7013 76.30%
Write-in Votes 59 0.64%

COUNTY COMMISSIONER 2
Total
Precincts Reporting 21

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Raley, James M. REP 7847 98.17%
Write-in Votes 146 1.83%

COUNTY COMMISSIONER 3
Total
Precincts Reporting 21

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Welch, Bill DEM 2810 30.69%
Glotflety, Denny REP 1924 21.01%
Falter, George (Write-In) 92 1.01%
Gatto, Bob (Write-In) 4092 44.70%
Thomas, Tim (Write-In) 76 0.84%
Write-in Votes 162 1.77%

JUDGE SPEC APPEAL AT LG
Total
Precincts Reporting 21

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YES Krauser, Peter B 5840 80.93%
NO Krauser, Peter B. 1376 19.07%

JUDGE SPEC APPEAL AT LG
Total
Precincts Reporting 21

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YES Matricciani, Alb 5586 79.75%
NO Matricciani, Albe 1418 20.25%

JUDGE SPEC APPEAL AT LG
Total
Precincts Reporting 21

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YES Wright, Alexande 5639 80.97%
NO Wright, Alexander 1325 19.03%

JUDGE SPEC APPEALS 3
Total
Precincts Reporting 21

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YES Graeff, Kathryn 5584 81.29%
NO Graeff, Kathryn G 1285 18.71%

STATE’S ATTORNEY
Total
Precincts Reporting 21

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Welch, Lisa Thayer REP 7284 97.97%
Write-in Votes 151 2.03%

CLERK CIRCUIT COURT
Total
Precincts Reporting 21

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Buckel, Sondra R REP 8350 99.78%
Write-in Votes 18 0.22%

REGISTER OF WILLS
Total
Precincts Reporting 21

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Watson, Rita L REP 8348 98.47%
Write-in Votes 130 1.53%

JUDGE ORPHANS COURT
Total
Precincts Reporting 21

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Deberry, Everett B DEM 2792 13.08%
DeWitt, Clifford C. REP 6752 31.63%
Margroff, James F. REP 6004 28.13%
Wilt, Wayne REP 5787 27.11%
Write-in Votes 12 0.06%

SHERIFF
Total
Precincts Reporting 21

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Hebden, Skyler John DEM 1458 15.60%
Corley, Robert E. REP 7847 83.98%
Write-in Votes 39 0.42%

BOARD OF EDUCATION 1
Total
Precincts Reporting 21

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Forrester, Donald D. 7009 99.62%
Write-in Votes 27 0.38%

BOARD OF EDUCATION 2
Total
Precincts Reporting 21

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Carr, Thomas 6799 99.81%
Write-in Votes 13 0.19%

BOARD OF EDUCATION 3
Total
Precincts Reporting 21

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Durst, Rodney 5770 73.50%
Reckart, Rodney A. 2060 26.24%
Write-in Votes 20 0.25%

STATE QUESTION 1
Total
Precincts Reporting 21

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For a Convention 3990 50.39%
Against a Convention 3929 49.61%

STATE QUESTION 2
Total
Precincts Reporting 21

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For the Constitution 4476 56.94%
Against the Constitu 3385 43.06%

STATE QUESTION 3
Total
Precincts Reporting 21

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For the Constitution 5489 71.48%
Against the Constitu 2190 28.52%

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