ELIZABETHTOWN — Bladen County’s four-member Board of Elections confirmed the one-stop and absentee by mail ballots at meetings Monday and Tuesday evenings.
The county had 1,066 people to visit the Cypress Street one-stop site. Another 56 ballots mail in were certified before being opened on Tuesday and fed into a tabulator.
There have been no military or overseas absentee ballots.
The board meets again Friday at 5 p.m. to review any ballots that were postmarked Tuesday. If certified, they would be opened and fed into the tabulator.
In election results Tuesday night, the race for county commissioner in District 3 had a difference of four votes. Democrat Russell Priest, the incumbent, led Republican Wayne Edge 676-672.
Valeria McKoy, the interim executive director, said two more envelopes were in the office via the mail through Wednesday.
The county got a visit from Kim Strach on Monday. She’s the outgoing executive director of the state Board of Elections staff. Other members of the state staff were scattered throughout the county on Tuesday while Strach was in the Raleigh office all day, a state spokesman confirmed.
The county election board, after Friday, meets again at 11 a.m. May 23 and at 11 a.m. May 24, the latter of which is to canvass the votes.
Kim Strach, executive director of the state Board of Elections, was in Bladen County on Monday. She presided at a public evidentiary hearing on the 9th Congressional District investigation in February.