BHC Democrats accept write-ins

Byrd, Kinney make a stop in Greybull this Saturday

A red county in a red state, only 3.9% of ballots cast in the Big Horn County primary were from the Democratic party. Local candidates were sparse, leaving a lot of room for write-ins. Nominees who received the most write-in votes for committeeman and committeewoman, with a minimum of three votes, were solicited, and all accepted. 

No Big Horn County Democratic Committee people were on the ballot for Greybull. A qualifying write-in for committeewoman was Lynette Murray (7 votes). Ralph Nieder Westermann was written in for committeeman with five votes.

In Shell, Mart Hinckley was elected as committeeman with 11 votes. Write-in for committeewoman was Jade Smith with three votes.

For Basin, incumbent chairman Erik Good was elected committeeman with 18 votes. Darla Haller took the write-in committeewoman position with three votes.

Emblem wrote in Wyatt Kruse (3 votes) and Karisa Kruse (3 votes). 

Lovell elected committeeman David James with 23 votes.

No write-ins qualified for Manderson, or for Lovell committeewoman. No candidates or write-ins were received for Cowley, Burlington, Otto, Hyattville, Byron, Deaver or Frannie.

CANDIDATE VISIT

Candidates James Byrd for U.S. Senate and Lisa Kinney for U.S. House will be at Los Gabanes Events Center in Greybull Saturday, Sept. 26, from noon to 2 p.m., sponsored by the Big Horn County Democrats. Refreshments will be provided, and everyone is welcome to attend.