District Four Runoff?
Three days after Tuesday’s primary elections, we have a possible shakeup in a Jackson County Supervisor race for District 4. It appears incumbent Troy Ross did not get enough votes to secure a seat, which could lead to a runoff.
“It appears we’re going to have a runoff between Troy Ross and Tommy Brodnax,” said Jackson County Circuit Clerk Joe Martin.
The Republican Primary win for Jackson County District 4 supervisor was all but secured for incumbent Troy Ross Tuesday night with Ross leading opponent Tommy Brodnax by 246 votes. That was before affidavit ballots were counted, the election now comes down to four votes.
“What’s holding us up is the fact that we have four people that voted Republican and two people who voted Democrat who did not bring ID to the polls and what that does is hold our election process up. We have to wait five days,” said Martin.
That means neither Ross nor Brodnax will know until Wednesday whether there is a solid win or they’ll face each other again in the August 25th runoff. But Troy Ross says for him, campaigning continues. “When the game is close and you’re in the fourth quarter, you don’t wait for a count to come in, you just play ball and act like you’ve got the ball and it is fourth down. You’ve got to move forward and get a touchdown. So, we’re going to move forward. We’re going to treat this as if we’re in a runoff right now. If Wednesday comes along and we find out we’re not, that will be good news and we just campaigned early for November.”
Fellow Supervisors Mike Mangum and John McKay were voted out, making Ross one of the three incumbents left to possibly keep his seat.
The winner of the runoff on August 25th will face Democrat Sean Alawine and Independent David Venus in the November general election.
“It appears we’re going to have a runoff between Troy Ross and Tommy Brodnax,” said Jackson County Circuit Clerk Joe Martin.
The Republican Primary win for Jackson County District 4 supervisor was all but secured for incumbent Troy Ross Tuesday night with Ross leading opponent Tommy Brodnax by 246 votes. That was before affidavit ballots were counted, the election now comes down to four votes.
“What’s holding us up is the fact that we have four people that voted Republican and two people who voted Democrat who did not bring ID to the polls and what that does is hold our election process up. We have to wait five days,” said Martin.
That means neither Ross nor Brodnax will know until Wednesday whether there is a solid win or they’ll face each other again in the August 25th runoff. But Troy Ross says for him, campaigning continues. “When the game is close and you’re in the fourth quarter, you don’t wait for a count to come in, you just play ball and act like you’ve got the ball and it is fourth down. You’ve got to move forward and get a touchdown. So, we’re going to move forward. We’re going to treat this as if we’re in a runoff right now. If Wednesday comes along and we find out we’re not, that will be good news and we just campaigned early for November.”
Fellow Supervisors Mike Mangum and John McKay were voted out, making Ross one of the three incumbents left to possibly keep his seat.
The winner of the runoff on August 25th will face Democrat Sean Alawine and Independent David Venus in the November general election.
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