Thousands of paper ballots are stacked in the courtroom during the Nov. 4, 2008 General Election. Employees who counted ballots include election superintendent Lynn Brandenburg (back center), Ronnie Mitchell and Meredith Brazel (back table) spectators on the bench to the left, Bonnie Gardner, Jeffrey Anderson and others and (forefront l-r) Burt Willis, Mae Willis, Deidre Crane and registrar Sandi Chamblin. Employees began cutting open the yellow envelopes around 7:07 p.m. and sometime after 1 a.m., the Pike County presidential election was officially declared in favor of George W. Bush.
Reflections of historic election
With the presidential election just a month away, some courthouse employees are thinking back to the last presidential election, when thousands of absentee ballots had to be counted after the polls closed. The 2008 election saw a record 42.53% of Pike voters casting absentee ballots – and all 4,402 had to be counted by hand.
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