Absentee ballots are in - take a look
Absentee ballots have been counted, and three young Republicans - incumbent Rep. Luke Malek, Peter Riggs and Paul Amador - all beat their opponents. But there's a long, long way to go.
Here's the absentee tally for Kootenai County:
US SENATOR Vote for 1 Mike Crapo . . . . . . . . . . 3,211 100.00 0 3,211 US REPRESENTATIVE DIST 1 Vote for 1 Gordon Counsil. . . . . . . . . 278 8.39 0 278 Isaac M. Haugen . . . . . . . . 287 8.66 0 287 Raul R. Labrador . . . . . . . . 2,750 82.96 0 2,750 STATE SENATOR LEG DIST 2 Vote for 1 Steve Vick . . . . . . . . . . 1,117 100.00 0 1,117 STATE REP LEG DIST 2 POS A Vote for 1 Vito Barbieri . . . . . . . . . 839 65.04 0 839 Fritz Wiedenhoff . . . . . . . . 451 34.96 0 451 STATE REP LEG DIST 2 POS B Vote for 1 Alan Littlejohn . . . . . . . . 525 42.10 0 525 Eric Redman. . . . . . . . . . 722 57.90 0 722 STATE SENATOR LEG DIST 3 Vote for 1 Bob Nonini . . . . . . . . . . 819 100.00 0 819 STATE REP LEG DIST 3 POS A Vote for 1 Ron Mendive. . . . . . . . . . 815 100.00 0 815 STATE REP LEG DIST 3 POS B Vote for 1 Don Cheatham . . . . . . . . . 404 44.40 0 404 Peter Riggs. . . . . . . . . . 506 55.60 0 506 STATE SENATOR LEG DIST 4 Vote for 1 Mary Souza . . . . . . . . . . 1,071 100.00 0 1,071 STATE REP LEG DIST 4 POS A Vote for 1 Arthur B. Macomber . . . . . . . 491 38.91 0 491 Lucas "Luke" Malek . . . . . . . 771 61.09 0 771 STATE REP LEG DIST 4 POS B Vote for 1 Paul Amador. . . . . . . . . . 682 53.53 0 682 Kathleen Sims . . . . . . . . . 592 46.47 0 592 COUNTY COMMISSIONER DIST 2 Vote for 1 David Stewart . . . . . . . . . 1,507 45.32 0 1,507 Chris Fillios . . . . . . . . . 1,818 54.68 0 1,818 COUNTY COMMISSIONER DIST 3 Vote for 1 Bob Bingham. . . . . . . . . . 743 22.97 0 743 Leslie Duncan . . . . . . . . . 1,101 34.04 0 1,101 Fred Meckel. . . . . . . . . . 641 19.82 0 641 Duane Rasmussen . . . . . . . . 749 23.16 0 749 COUNTY SHERIFF Vote for 1 John Green . . . . . . . . . . 1,120 31.50 0 1,120 Benton E. "Ben" Wolfinger . . . . . 2,435 68.50 0 2,435 PROSECUTING ATTORNEY Vote for 1 Barry McHugh . . . . . . . . . 3,021 100.00 0 3,021 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 1 Vote for 1 Hans Neumann . . . . . . . . . 10 100.00 0 10 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 2 Vote for 1 Thomas Robinson . . . . . . . . 57 100.00 0 57 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 3 Vote for 1 Melanie Vander Feer . . . . . . . 43 100.00 0 43 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 4 Vote for 1 Clay Theander . . . . . . . . . 28 100.00 0 28 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 6 Vote for 1 Scott Beckett . . . . . . . . . 40 59.70 0 40 Doug Duncan. . . . . . . . . . 27 40.30 0 27 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 7 Vote for 1 James O. Wood . . . . . . . . . 17 25.37 0 17 David M. Crane. . . . . . . . . 50 74.63 0 50 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 8 Vote for 1 Michael M. Scott . . . . . . . . 102 100.00 0 102 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 9 Vote for 1 Bonnie Cameron. . . . . . . . . 57 100.00 0 57 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 10 Vote for 1 Neil Oliver. . . . . . . . . . 14 100.00 0 14 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 12 Vote for 1 Gary Hourigan . . . . . . . . . 32 100.00 0 32 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 13 Vote for 1 Jennifer Locke. . . . . . . . . 25 65.79 0 25 Donna L. Montgomery . . . . . . . 13 34.21 0 13 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 14 Vote for 1 Donald Jack Bradway . . . . . . . 61 100.00 0 61 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 15 Vote for 1 Michael Towan . . . . . . . . . 64 100.00 0 64 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 16 Vote for 1 Ruthie Johnson. . . . . . . . . 70 100.00 0 70 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 18 Vote for 1 Tim Kastning . . . . . . . . . 48 100.00 0 48 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 19 Vote for 1 Duane Rasmussen . . . . . . . . 29 100.00 0 29 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 20 Vote for 1 Luke Sommer. . . . . . . . . . 83 100.00 0 83 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 21 Vote for 1 Paul Mitchell . . . . . . . . . 34 100.00 0 34 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 22 Vote for 1 Michael W. "Mic" Armon . . . . . . 83 100.00 0 83 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 23 Vote for 1 Nathan Tull. . . . . . . . . . 24 100.00 0 24 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 24 Vote for 1 Jeff Populus . . . . . . . . . 26 72.22 0 26 Wendy Medlock . . . . . . . . . 10 27.78 0 10 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 25 Vote for 1 David Kimball . . . . . . . . . 32 100.00 0 32 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 26 Vote for 1 Jeffrey J. Kersh . . . . . . . . 9 100.00 0 9 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 27 Vote for 1 WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 4 100.00 0 4 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 28 Vote for 1 Michael P. Burgess . . . . . . . 56 84.85 0 56 J. Aaron Nicholes. . . . . . . . 10 15.15 0 10 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 29 Vote for 1 WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 2 100.00 0 2 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 31 Vote for 1 Richard Houser. . . . . . . . . 8 100.00 0 8 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 32 Vote for 1 WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 1 100.00 0 1 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 33 Vote for 1 Sheila Waller . . . . . . . . . 9 100.00 0 9 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 34 Vote for 1 Carol Goodman . . . . . . . . . 49 100.00 0 49 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 35 Vote for 1 Agnes Kane . . . . . . . . . . 32 100.00 0 32 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 36 Vote for 1 John N. Cross . . . . . . . . . 34 100.00 0 34 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 37 Vote for 1 Todd M. Banducci . . . . . . . . 46 100.00 0 46 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 38 Vote for 1 Kale Lowman. . . . . . . . . . 12 37.50 0 12 Nathaniel Ludlow . . . . . . . . 20 62.50 0 20 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 39 Vote for 1 Terri Seymour . . . . . . . . . 44 100.00 0 44 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 40 Vote for 1 Barbara Hedden. . . . . . . . . 83 100.00 0 83 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 41 Vote for 1 Barry McHugh . . . . . . . . . 37 100.00 0 37 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 42 Vote for 1 Allen Richardson . . . . . . . . 63 100.00 0 63 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 44 Vote for 1 Dan R. Ellis . . . . . . . . . 68 100.00 0 68 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 45 Vote for 1 Steve Adams. . . . . . . . . . 70 100.00 0 70 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 46 Vote for 1 Ed Torrence. . . . . . . . . . 77 100.00 0 77 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 47 Vote for 1 WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 15 100.00 0 15 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 48 Vote for 1 Gary Ingram. . . . . . . . . . 19 63.33 0 19 Bruce L. Berry. . . . . . . . . 11 36.67 0 11 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 49 Vote for 1 Heather M. Vick . . . . . . . . 40 100.00 0 40 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 50 Vote for 1 Sidney C. Smith . . . . . . . . 22 73.33 0 22 Tyler Haagenson . . . . . . . . 8 26.67 0 8 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 51 Vote for 1 Stanley Drennan . . . . . . . . 39 100.00 0 39 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 52 Vote for 1 Bjorn Handeen . . . . . . . . . 16 55.17 0 16 Ronda Nash . . . . . . . . . . 13 44.83 0 13 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 53 Vote for 1 Matt Robinson . . . . . . . . . 18 100.00 0 18 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 54 Vote for 1 Sharon Culbreth . . . . . . . . 28 100.00 0 28 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 55 Vote for 1 Marjorie Chadderdon . . . . . . . 15 53.57 0 15 Kelly Powell . . . . . . . . . 13 46.43 0 13 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 56 Vote for 1 Anita L. Banta. . . . . . . . . 15 100.00 0 15 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 57 Vote for 1 Tom Cronin . . . . . . . . . . 27 100.00 0 27 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 58 Vote for 1 Craig Moss . . . . . . . . . . 27 71.05 0 27 Christian Jostlein . . . . . . . 11 28.95 0 11 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 60 Vote for 1 Al Ortmann . . . . . . . . . . 15 100.00 0 15 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 61 Vote for 1 Randy Moate. . . . . . . . . . 34 35.79 0 34 Brent Regan. . . . . . . . . . 61 64.21 0 61 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 62 Vote for 1 Chad Ross . . . . . . . . . . 18 75.00 0 18 Teri L. Cottle. . . . . . . . . 6 25.00 0 6 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 63 Vote for 1 Tony Wisniewski . . . . . . . . 53 100.00 0 53 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 64 Vote for 1 Jeff Tyler . . . . . . . . . . 39 100.00 0 39 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 65 Vote for 1 Ron Mendive. . . . . . . . . . 37 100.00 0 37 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 66 Vote for 1 Ann Seddon . . . . . . . . . . 25 51.02 0 25 Peter Riggs. . . . . . . . . . 24 48.98 0 24 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 67 Vote for 1 Jody Bieze . . . . . . . . . . 21 75.00 0 21 WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 7 25.00 0 7 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 68 Vote for 1 Josephine Thyr. . . . . . . . . 22 100.00 0 22 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 69 Vote for 1 Michael J. Eder . . . . . . . . 9 21.43 0 9 George D. Mitchell . . . . . . . 33 78.57 0 33 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 70 Vote for 1 WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 10 100.00 0 10 ********** (DEMOCRATIC) ********** US SENATOR Vote for 1 Jerry Sturgill. . . . . . . . . 728 100.00 0 728 US REPRESENTATIVE DIST 1 Vote for 1 Shizandra Fox . . . . . . . . . 169 23.80 0 169 Staniela Nikolova. . . . . . . . 92 12.96 0 92 James Piotrowski . . . . . . . . 449 63.24 0 449 STATE REP LEG DIST 2 POS A Vote for 1 Kathy (Kraack) Kahn . . . . . . . 232 100.00 0 232 STATE REP LEG DIST 2 POS B Vote for 1 Cooper Coyle . . . . . . . . . 67 29.26 0 67 Richard Kohles. . . . . . . . . 162 70.74 0 162 STATE SENATOR LEG DIST 4 Vote for 1 Kristi Milan . . . . . . . . . 343 100.00 0 343 STATE REP LEG DIST 4 POS A Vote for 1 Patrick P. Mitchell . . . . . . . 258 75.44 0 258 Turns To The East. . . . . . . . 84 24.56 0 84 STATE REP LEG DIST 4 POS B Vote for 1 Tom Hearn . . . . . . . . . . 350 100.00 0 350 COUNTY SHERIFF Vote for 1 Tina Kunishige. . . . . . . . . 462 100.00 0 462 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 4 Vote for 1 Shirley McFaddan . . . . . . . . 3 100.00 0 3 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 6 Vote for 1 Dale R. Broadsword . . . . . . . 7 100.00 0 7 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 7 Vote for 1 Paula K. Neils. . . . . . . . . 13 100.00 0 13 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 15 Vote for 1 Bruce Twitchell . . . . . . . . 9 100.00 0 9 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 16 Vote for 1 Sheila Gary. . . . . . . . . . 17 100.00 0 17 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 20 Vote for 1 Carolyn F. Mattoon . . . . . . . 28 100.00 0 28 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 21 Vote for 1 Jean Kohles. . . . . . . . . . 14 100.00 0 14 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 22 Vote for 1 Will Neal . . . . . . . . . . 14 100.00 0 14 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 25 Vote for 1 Timothy S. Leadingham . . . . . . 9 100.00 0 9 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 27 Vote for 1 Christina Kenck . . . . . . . . 4 100.00 0 4 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 28 Vote for 1 Linda A. Reed . . . . . . . . . 10 100.00 0 10 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 31 Vote for 1 Ronald K. Johnson. . . . . . . . 2 100.00 0 2 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 35 Vote for 1 Patricia Riffe. . . . . . . . . 4 100.00 0 4 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 41 Vote for 1 Cheryl Stransky . . . . . . . . 8 100.00 0 8 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 42 Vote for 1 Turns To The East. . . . . . . . 16 100.00 0 16 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 43 Vote for 1 Theresa Potts . . . . . . . . . 16 100.00 0 16 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 44 Vote for 1 Adela Sussman . . . . . . . . . 16 100.00 0 16 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 45 Vote for 1 Janet Callen . . . . . . . . . 27 100.00 0 27 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 46 Vote for 1 Sandra Foley . . . . . . . . . 24 100.00 0 24 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 47 Vote for 1 John W. Dare . . . . . . . . . 18 100.00 0 18 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 51 Vote for 1 Warren C. Middlemist. . . . . . . 19 100.00 0 19 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 53 Vote for 1 Barbara A. Harris. . . . . . . . 12 100.00 0 12 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 54 Vote for 1 John M. Bolan . . . . . . . . . 14 100.00 0 14 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 55 Vote for 1 Cindy Algeo. . . . . . . . . . 8 100.00 0 8 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 56 Vote for 1 Larry M. Belmont . . . . . . . . 14 100.00 0 14 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 57 Vote for 1 William Smith . . . . . . . . . 10 100.00 0 10 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 59 Vote for 1 Gale P. Stromberg. . . . . . . . 10 100.00 0 10 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 60 Vote for 1 Beverly Moss . . . . . . . . . 12 100.00 0 12 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 61 Vote for 1 Barbara Howard. . . . . . . . . 24 100.00 0 24 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 62 Vote for 1 Paula Marano . . . . . . . . . 9 100.00 0 9 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 65 Vote for 1 Ben Theard . . . . . . . . . . 8 100.00 0 8 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 66 Vote for 1 Jerry Shriner . . . . . . . . . 9 100.00 0 9 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 68 Vote for 1 Dawn Wiksten . . . . . . . . . 6 100.00 0 6 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 69 Vote for 1 Terri A. Capshaw . . . . . . . . 7 100.00 0 7 PCT COMMITTEEMAN PRECINCT 70 Vote for 1 Dale Herboldt . . . . . . . . . 2 100.00 0 2 ********** (CONSTITUTION) ********** US SENATOR Vote for 1 Pro-Life. . . . . . . . . . . 0 0 0 Ray J. Writz . . . . . . . . . 0 0 0 ********** (NONPARTISAN) ********** SUPREME COURT JUSTICE Roger S. Burdick Vote for 1 Roger S. Burdick . . . . . . . . 3,685 100.00 0 3,685 SUPREME COURT JUSTICE Jim Jones Vote for 1 Robyn Brody. . . . . . . . . . 1,174 30.53 0 1,174 Sergio A. Gutierrez . . . . . . . 669 17.40 0 669 Curt McKenzie . . . . . . . . . 1,264 32.87 0 1,264 Clive J. Strong . . . . . . . . 738 19.19 0 738 APPEALS COURT JUDGE Molly J. Huskey Vote for 1 Molly J. Huskey . . . . . . . . 3,679 100.00 0 3,679 Consolidated Free Library Dist Levy Vote for 1 IN FAVOR. . . . . . . . . . . 1,380 47.70 0 1,380 AGAINST . . . . . . . . . . . 1,513 52.30 0 1,513 Kootenai Water Dist #1 Bond Vote for 1 IN FAVOR OF. . . . . . . . . . 29 72.50 0 29 AGAINST . . . . . . . . . . . 11 27.50 0 11