Shortage of GOP ballots delays primary returns in Scott County

A large voter turnout in Scott County delayed Tuesday's primary election results, which were not available by press time.

According to County Clerk Rita Milam, the office ran out of Republican ballots because of the unexpected high voter turnout. The ballots had to be photocopied, but the photocopied ballots could not go through the voting scanner. Those ballots had to be counted by hand.

A full report on the Scott County primary election will run in Thursday's Southeast Missourian.

This primary election decided Democratic nominees for county assessor and sheriff and Democratic and Republican nominees for public administrator and 1st District commissioner.