The Lincoln County Courthouse in Newport. Unofficial Nov. 3 results have Cathie Rigby and Cristen Don leading the commissioner races. Photo: Finetooth, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Unofficial results from Lincoln County’s Nov. 3 general election have Cathie Rigby leading Casey Miller for county commissioner, Position 1, and Cristen Don leading Joe D. Steere for Position 2. The clerk’s fourth unofficial report, issued Nov. 10 at 5 p.m. with about 97 percent of ballots counted, showed Rigby with 13,291 votes and Miller with 9,724, and Don with 13,767 votes and Steere with 8,884.
The same unofficial report recorded 17,205 votes for Lincoln County Clerk Amy A. Southwell and 16,366 for Treasurer Jayne Welch, each running without an opponent listed in the tally. Countywide, the clerk reported 26,100 ballots and a turnout of 64.7 percent.
Those figures are unofficial. The secretary of state will certify statewide results on Dec. 10, and counties still have until Nov. 24 to resolve ballot challenges. Post-election audits are required before the results are final. Miller, the current Position 1 commissioner, was the incumbent in that race; the unofficial margin is large, but it is not a certified result.
The report is the official unofficial count as of Nov. 10, not a later canvass. Anyone looking for updates should use the Lincoln County elections page and the secretary of state’s unofficial results at results.oregonvotes.gov.
