Voters throughout The Valley cast ballots in the primary elections on August 24.
PRECINCTS REPORTING
Statewide, the results of the very close Democratic primary race were not finalized until the afternoon of August 25 when Shumlin was declared the winner with all of Vermont's 260 precincts reporting in. Shumlin received 18,244 votes, Racine received 18,066, Markowitz received 17,854, Dunne received 15,100 and Bartlett received 3,795.
In the primary race for Lt. Governor, Valley voters chose Chris Bray over Steve Howard, 538 to 325.
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SCOTT OVER SNELLING
In the Republican primary for Lt. Governor, Valley voters again joined the rest of the state in opting for Phil Scott over Mark Snelling, 322 to 95.
Valley voters cast 397 votes for Brian Dubie, Republican candidate for governor.
In a highly competitive primary race for three Washington County state Senate seats, Valley voters gave Anthony Pollina 762 votes, Ann Cummings 711 votes, Kim Cheney 454 votes, Donny Osman 347 votes and Laura Moore 324 votes. Countywide results were not complete by press time. Preliminary countywide results showed Cummings and Pollina taking first and second place with Cheney and Osman battling for the third seat on the Democratic state Senate ticket.
THREE PLACES
There were three candidates running for three places on the Republican state senate ticket: Bill Doyle, David Harrington and Ed Larson. Locally, Doyle received 314 votes. Harrington received 219 and Larson received 234. See chart of Washington County Senate results on Page 14.
Voter turnout rates varied throughout the towns. In Waitsfield, 31 percent, or 433, of the town's 1,409 voters turned out. In Warren, 21.4 percent, or 311, of the town's 1,456 voters cast ballots. Fayston has 1,041 registered voters and 230 of them, or 22.1 percent, turned out for the primary. In Moretown, there are 1,354 registered voters, of whom 415, or 30.7 percent, voted in the primary. And Duxbury saw voter turnout of 30 percent, or 306, of the town's 1,022 registered voters.
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UPDATE: MORETOWN
Voters in Moretown also passed a special bond vote approving the expenditure of up to $50,000 for a new three-quarter-ton diesel utility truck with an eight-and-one-half-foot plow for the highway department. The vote on that article was 265 yes to 138 no. In March, select board members voted to spend $15,000 from the Capital Reserve Fund to purchase a one-ton truck. Following a special meeting, town officials voted to not spend the previously approved amount and wait until after a road foreman was hired before purchasing a truck. An article that asked for authorization to spend an amount not to exceed $190,000 failed on Town Meeting day. The truck will be financed for no more than five years.
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