Elliott wins judge race; Byers takes Marshall


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Elliott wins judge race; Byers takes Marshall

By SUE WATSON
Staff Writer

Unofficial election results for the November 21 runoff election showed Ripley attorney Robert Elliott easily defeating Shirley C. Byers, a Holly Springs attorney and former circuit court judge in Greenville, in the District 3, Place 2 circuit court judicial race.

According to unofficial figures compiled by the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal and published November 22, Elliott received 12,033 votes or 67 percent of votes cast. Byers received 6,021 or 33 percent.

The Place 2 position is a newly created judge seat for District 3, authorized by the 2005 Legislature to help clear an overcrowded docket in the district’s seven counties - Marshall, Benton, Tippah, Union, Lafayette, Calhoun and Chickasaw counties. Two incumbent District 3 judges, Andrew Howorth and Henry Lackey, ran unopposed this year.

Official election results for the November 21 runoff in Marshall County by precinct were provided by the Election Commission and circuit clerk Lucy Carpenter.

Byers swept the county, taking 2,622 votes or 62.79 percent as compared to Elliott’s 1,554 votes or 37.21 percent. Total voting was down in the runoff, Carpenter said, with 4,176 voters going to the polls out of a total registered voter population of 18,765. Just over 22 percent of registered voters in the county cast ballots in the runoff.

By precinct, the following official results are tabulated with percentages rounded off and in brackets.

1 North Holly Springs: Byers 255 (78 %); Elliott 74 (22)
1 Red Banks: Byers 51 (59); Elliott 36 (41)
1 West Holly Springs: Byers 393 (87); Elliott 58 (13)
2 North Cayce: Byers 45 (70); Elliott 19 (30)
2 Early Grove: Byers 46 (72); Elliott 18 (28)

2 Hudsonville: Byers 101 (69); Elliott 45 (31)
2 Mt. Pleasant: Byers 92 (48); Elliott 100 (52)
2 North Holly Springs: Byers 181 (78); Elliott 51 (22)
2 Slayden: Byers 115 (48); Elliott 126 (52)
3 Barton: Byers 15 (21); Elliott 55(79)
3 Byhalia: Byers 113 (54); Elliott 95 (46)
3 Cayce: Byers 70 (77); Elliott 21 (23)
4 Chulahoma: Byers 165 (94); Elliott 10 (6)
4 Laws Hill: Byers 65 (66); Elliott 33 (34)
4 Marianna: Byers 107 (75); Elliott 36 (25)
4 Victoria: Byers 66 (86); Elliott 11 (14)
4 Warsaw: Byers 58 (83); Elliott 12 (17)
4 Watson: Byers 47 (76); Elliott 15 (24)
4 Wall Hill: Byers 122 (95); Elliott 7 (5)
5 Bethlehem: Byers 20 (17); Elliott 95 (83)
5 Cornersville: Byers 1 (2.5); Elliott 39 (97.5)
5 Potts Camp: Byers 89 (36); Elliott 156 (64)
5 South Holly Springs: Byers 328 (50); Elliott 333 (50)
5 Waterford: Byers 77 (41); Elliott 109 (59)

Carpenter noted poll workers reported fewer paper jams in the new voting machines. She attributed it to a shorter ballot. She said Diebold, the manufacturer, thinks the company has pinpointed the cause of paperjams and the problem will be corrected before next year’s elections.

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