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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 3, 2009
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Vol. 21, No. 263
RO U T T
C O U N T Y ’ S
DA I LY
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S T E A M B O AT S P R I N G S
Preserving history Open house at CMC promotes historic preservation program Page 4
SPORTS
Phils force a Game 6 Page 17
Correction The story “Still time to vote,” on page 1 of Monday’s Steamboat Today, incorrectly stated that voters can drop off ballots at locations in Hayden, South Routt and North Routt. Those locations closed Friday. Voters must drop off ballots at the Routt County Courthouse, either in the Elections Office on the third floor or the Clerk & Recorder’s Office on the second floor, on Lincoln Avenue between Fifth and Sixth streets in downtown Steamboat Springs. The Elections Office will accept ballots from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. today.
Election day arrives
Voter turnout surges in recent days; ballots accepted until 7 p.m. today Brandon Gee
PILOT & TODAY STAFF
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS
Voter turnout through Monday surged by about 1,000 votes since late last week. More than 4,000 Routt County residents now have voted in the 2009 election.
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Election judge Jane Romberg pulls a ballot out of the scanner after it was counted Monday afternoon at the Routt County Elections Office inside the Routt County Courthouse in Steamboat Springs.
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Monday night’s Cash 5 numbers: 10-12-13-23-30 Drawings are held Monday through Saturday.
About 4,000 more people will have to vote today if Routt County Clerk and Recorder Kay Weinland is to meet her goal of 60 percent voter turnout in the county’s first election conducted exclusively with mail ballots. Ballots are being accepted from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. today at the Routt County
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Sunny to partly cloudy. High of 50.
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Elections Office in the Routt County Courthouse in downtown Steamboat Springs. Those who haven’t received a ballot and think they should have — or have any other questions — should visit the elections office or call 970-8705558. Completed ballots must be received by 7 p.m. today.
It is too late to return ballots by mail, and other dropoff locations throughout the county were closed Friday. An electronic voting machine made available for disabled voters also may be used by anyone else through 7 p.m. today at the See Election, page 12
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