Voters across Grundy and Marion counties in Tennessee picked leadership in municipal elections for mayor and for seats on commissions and boards of aldermen featured on Tuesday ballots.
One of the hottest contests was between an incumbent and former mayor in Monteagle, which straddles the Marion-Grundy county line, while voters in the larger Marion County towns of Jasper and South Pittsburg picked new mayors, and voters in Grundy’s Altamont picked aldermen.
But late Tuesday night, Grundy County Administrator of Election Donna Basham said technical problems with the voting machines forced officials to start hand-entering results from each precinct. Final results wouldn’t be available until sometime this morning or later, she said.
Basham said Grundy officials hoped to borrow similar equipment from Warren County, but the same problem arose there, too.
“There’s no telling when we’ll be finished,” an exhausted Basham said just before 11 p.m. EDT.