Primary Election turnout light in Nuckolls County

The primary election votes cast in Nuckolls County were counted and the results posted on this newspaper’s web site last Wednesday afternoon.

Unofficially there were a total of 708 votes cast, 636 on election day and 72 in advance. Of these, 578 were Republican ballots, 98 Democrat, 2 Libertarian and 30 nonpartisan. Twenty-six ballots were blank.

In the only purely local question, there were 95 yes votes and 45 no votes on the City of Nelson proposition one, For proposition two there were 103 yes votes and 37 no votes. As both propositions passed, the Nelson City Sales Tax will be increasing a...