Myrtle Beach Area News | Politics Headlines
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Myrtle Beach election 2009 POLITICS PAGE
A poll worker accidentally used the wrong hand-held vote counter to close a voting machine at the Dunes 1 voting precinct in Myrtle Beach on Tuesday, leaving about 260 votes uncounted, officials discovered Wednesday.
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In Myrtle Beach's mayor vs. former mayor battle, the mayor won. Myrtle Beach Mayor John Rhodes beat former mayor Mark McBride in Tuesday's run-off election by 492 votes – 2,649 to 2,157.
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13 of 13 precincts reporting | Mayor: John Rhodes 2649, Mark McBride 2157. City council: Randal Wallace 3330, Mike Lowder 2713, Chuck Martino 2412.
Runoff elections are nothing new in Myrtle Beach, and they are nothing new for most of the candidates people can vote for Tuesday.
