Marion County election results: Primary 2008

A group of women stood in a shaded area outside of the Britton’s Neck Elementary gym, where voters came and went. Mazie Woodberry said she had been at the site off and on all day, picking up and delivering voters. Annie Ruth McDuffie said she was sitting outside the precinct telling voters to “do the right thing.”

In the sheriff’s race, McDuffie said, she voted for former deputy Dewayne Teenie. “He’s in my family and you can’t go against family,” she said.
At the Centenary Community Center, Marion County Council District 2 Candidate Cynthia Legette said a voter told her that no county council names were on the ballot he received. Incumbent

Eloise Rogers and Diane Davis Lewis were also candidates for that seat. The Marion County Voter Registration office cleared up that, though, and the voter was able to come back and vote for a county council candidate, Legette said. In that race, Legette and Rogers will have a run off on June 24.

In the City of Marion, poll workers at the Marion Opera House voting precinct said they experienced a large turnout with more than 480 voters casting ballots an hour and half before the polls closed at 7 p.m.

In unofficial results released by the Marion County Voters Registration and Election Commission, Mark Richardson was re-elected as the Marion County Sheriff, when he took 4,233 votes to his challenger's, Dewayne Tennie, 3,660 votes.

In Marion County Council District 2, Eloise Rogers, incumbent, took 607 votes to challenger Diane Davis Lewis' 143 votes and Cynthia Legette's 564 votes.

In Marion County Council District 4, Allen Floyd was re-elected over Cynthia Furnace Lawes, 701 votes to her 306.

In Marion County Council District 6 Pearly Britt, incumbent, narrowly defeated Hollis Martin, with a vote of 489 to 462.
Marion County voters contributed 1,891 votes to challenger Levone Grave's race against Senate District 30 Sen. Kent Williams. Williams claimed 5,016 votes.

According to SCVotes.org, Marion County has 19,430 registered voters.

Sellers referendum
The unofficial election results say that Sellers residents overwhelmingly approved the city's referendum to move sewer services from the city to Grand Strand Water & Sewer Authority. Voting for the referendum was done on a separate voting machine, which was not closed properly at the end of the day, Byron Wheeler, Marion County Election Commission chairman said Tuesday. The votes were counted Wednesday morning, showing that 79 votes were cast, with 70 voting for the change and 9 opposed. The vote will mean that the Horry-based entity will be asked to come in and run the town's failing sewer system.

Sellers Town Hall Poll Manager Theodore Cooper, poll workers Kris Nelson, Krystal Ransome assisted Sellers' voters during the hot day. Poll workers said, though, the heat didn't affect turnout. Seventy-five of the 277 registered voters had cast their ballots as of 5:30 p.m. in the town's referendum. Those standing around talking about the matter were in favor of having the Horry County-based entity come to the town's rescue. "I was with it. I think it'll be better because we need a sewage company," said voter John Sellers.

After the election results were tallied, Sheriff Richardson, returning for his second term, said he thanks the citizens for voting for him and that the majority of the county's citizens like the job he is doing, so he'll keep continue doing it.