Early Voting Begins

— Voters will start heading to the polls today to decide the outcome of three runoff elections in Washington County.

Early voting begins at 8 a.m. for City Council races in Fayetteville, Springdale and West Fork.

Voters can cast ballots in the Nov. 27 election today, Wednesday and Monday in the County Clerk’s Office on the third floor of the Washington County Courthouse.

Polls will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Nov. 27.

At A Glance

Early Voting

Early voting for the Nov. 27 runoff election begins today in the County Clerk’s office on the third floor of the Washington County Courthouse. Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today, Wednesday and Monday.

Polls will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Nov. 27. Voters can call the clerk’s office at 479-444-1711 or visit the website, voterview.org, for information about polling places on election day.

Source: Washington County Clerk’s Office

The race for the Ward 4, Position 2 seat on the Fayetteville City Council pits Alan Long, a businessman and chairman of the Animal Services Advisory Board, against Mike Emery, a former television newscast director and an Air Force veteran. Long received 1,943 votes (36 percent) to Emery’s 1,159 (22 percent) in the Nov. 6 general election, according to final but unofficial results.

Springdale voters will decide between incumbent Jeff Watson and challenger Teresa Moore Powers in the race for the Ward 3, Position 2 City Council seat. Watson, a lawyer, received 6,233 votes (45 percent) to Powers’ 3,895 (28 percent). Powers is a retired schoolteacher and volunteer firefighter.

In West Fork, Bill Sergeant, a retired truck component manufacturer, is challenging six-year incumbent Misty Caudle for the Ward 2, Position 1 seat. Sergeant received 336 votes (40 percent) to Caudle’s 304 (36 percent).

In Fayetteville, residents must live in Ward 4, which encompasses most land west of Interstate 540 and several neighborhoods north and west of the University of Arkansas, to vote in the runoff election.

The Springdale and West Fork seats are both at-large positions, meaning all registered voters in each city can cast ballots in those races.

According to state law, runoff elections are held in municipal races with more than two candidates when no candidate captures more than 50 percent of votes cast. Runoffs are not held when a candidate receives more than 40 percent of votes cast and leads the second-place candidate by more than 20 percent of votes cast.

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