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ELECTION 2002: AROUND IOWA The Pes Moines Register ST Page 8A Thursday, November 7, 2002 Briefs From Across The State Gambling referendums Here are 100 percent of the unofficial returns from the 1 1 counties where voters decided whether to keep certain forms of gambling. CLARK COUNTY Casino x-Yes 2,892 80 No 743 20 CLAYTON COUNTY Casino x-Yes 5.452 81 No 1,253 19 Students' vote mirrors election Students voting in a mock election chose the same candidates as their adult counterparts at the polls. Iowa City school students, participating in the KidsVoting USA election, voted Tuesday to re-elect Gov. Tom Vilsack and to send Tom Harkin back to the US. Senate.

The students overwhelmingly chose Democrats, except in the 2nd Congressional race where they voted for incumbent Jim Leach. KidsVoting USA encourages children to accompany their parents to the polls. Often, a KidsVoting booth is set up nearby. At Coralville Elementary School Andrew Antill, a i fifth-grader, joined his grandmother to vote. "I voted Democratic because they have an open mind," he said.

Northwest Junior High eighth-grader Lisa McCully said television campaigns turned her off. "I just Dicked DeoDle," she said. "I don't "rf Republican Vaudt wins state auditor's race Republican David Vaudt narrowly won the state auditor's race Tuesday, defeating Democrat Patrick Deluhery by 3 percentage points. The final results weren't known until Wednesday. Democrats swept the other Iowa races involving Statehouse officials: governor and lieutenant governor, state treasurer, attorney general, secretary of state and secretary of agriculture.

Vaudt, a retired Des Moines-based executive with KPMG, an international accounting firm, will succeed veteran state Auditor Richard Johnson, also a Republican. Vaudt campaigned on the premise that the state's chief financial watchdog should be a certified public accountant. Deluhery, a state senator and college economics teacher from Davenport, said the credential wasn't necessary to lead the auditor's staff. Green Party loses its ballot status The Iowa Green Party lost its official ballot status in Tuesday night's elections, but says it will reclaim the status in 2004. The party had to get 2 percent in the governor's race to automatically get on the ballot for the next two years.

Green Party gubernatorial candidate Jay Robinson got 14,530 votes, or only about 1 percent of the unofficial vote. He outpaced Libertarian candidate Clyde Cleveland, who got 12,929 votes. "We have every confidence that that loss is but temporary and that we Greens will reclaim our rightful ballot status in 2004," the party said in a prepared statement, adding that no third party in Iowa has held onto ballot status in the last 70 or so years. The party qualified for automatic status after the presidential campaign of Ralph Nader in 2000. It will now have to gather petitions to get on the ballot.

Results: Democratic supporters watch voting results come in at the Hotel Fort Des Moines in Des Moines on election night. How Iowa voted for governor Unofficial results pr.pr tin ri Election may have set voter turnout record Iowa Secretary of State Chet Culver said Wednesday that he believes Iowa set a new record for voter turnout in a midterm election "Iowa had the best turnout ever in an off-year election," he said, referring to this being a year without a presidential race. At least 1.045 million people voted this year, although that doesn't take into account an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 special ballots that have yet to be counted. The turnout was roughly 58 percent of the active registered voters. Until now, Iowa's highest turnout in a midterm election was 66 percent of registered voters in 1982, about 1.05 million voters.

Boosting this year's participation were 275,000 requests for absentee ballots. Officials could not say Wednesday how many of those ballots were cast, because of special ballots yet to be counted, as know who to trust anymore because ot all tne stupid commercials. V0TE DETAILS sl THE REGISTER PC precincts counted. Km ft Tom Vilsack (D) f. Doug Gross (R) Not yet decided 100 of precincts reporting HOW I0WANS VOTED FOR CONGRESS TP total precincts.

House District 1 CLINTON COUNTY Casino x-Yes 10.545- No DES MOINES COUNTY Casino x-Yes 9,224 No DUBUQUE COUNTY Casino x-Yes 23,952 No 5.998 71 29 63 37 80 20 Track x-Yes No 23.952-..5,998- -80 20 JACXSON COUNTY Casino x-Yes No 67 33 LEE COUNTY Casino x-Yes No 9,367 74 26 POLK COUNTY Casino x-Yes No 66 34 POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY Casino x-Yes No Track x-Yes 19.979X- No SCOTT COUNTY Casino x-Yes 33,325 No 13.949- W00D8URY COUNTY Casino x-Yes 19.818- No 79 21 79 21 70 30 75 25 State returns Here are 100 percent of the unofficial returns from the 99 county election offices current officeholders): GOVERNOR x-Tom Vilsack" (Dem.) 536.541 53 Doug Gross (Rep.) 454,272 45 Jay Robinson (Green) 14,530 1 Clyde Cleveland (Lib.) 12,929 1 U.S. SENATE x-Tom Harkin (Dem.) 550,156 54 Greg Ganske (Rep.) 446,209 44 Timothy A. Harttian (Green) 1 1,228 1 Richard J. Moore (Lib.) 8,740 1 U.S. HOUSE 1ST DISTRICT x-Jim Nussle (Rep.) 111.899 57 Ann Hutchinson (Dem.) 83,288 43 2ND DISTRICT x-Jim Leach' (Rep.) 107,680 52 Julie Thomas (Dem.) 94,188 46 Kevin Litten (Lib.) 4,153 2 3RD DISTRICT x-Leonard Boswell (Dem.) 113,798 53 Stan Thompson (Rep.) 96,257 45 Jeffrey Smith (Lib.) 2,538 1 Edwin Fruit (Soc.) 668 0 4TH DISTRICT x-Tom Latham' (Rep.) 114,246 55 John Norris (Dem.) 90,782 43 Terry Wilson (Lib.) 2,817 1 Jim Hennager (One Earth) 1,517 1 5TH DISTRICT x-Steve King (Rep.) 113,098 62 Paul Shomshor (Dem.) 68,643 38 ATTORNEY GENERAL x-Tom Miller (Dem.) 606,870 62 Dave Millage (Rep.) 363,256 37 Edward F.

Noyes (Lib.) 16,408 2 STATE AUDITOR (1,946 of 2,076 precincts) x-David A. Vaudt (Rep.) 461,797 49 Patrick Deluhery (Dem.) 438,000 46 Christy Ann Welty (Lib.) 48,301 5 SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE x-Patty Judge' (Dem.) 486.851 49 John Askew (Rep.) 443,759 45 Brian Depew (Green) 33,695 3 Fritz Groszkruger (Lib.) 1 1 ,509 1 Ronald Tigner (other) 11,428 1 SECRETARY OF STATE x-Chet Culver' (Dem.) 522,654 53 Mike Hartwig (Rep.) 418,271 -43 S. Sanders Olson (Lib.) 20.969 2 Don Arenz (Green) STATE TREASURER x-Michael Fitzgerald' (Dem.) 530.038 55 Matt Whitaker (Rep.) 418,922 43 Tim Hird (Lib.) 18,488 2 THE REGISTER'S IOWA NEWS SERVICE Voters across Iowa elected members of their county boards of supervisors Tuesday. Here are the unofficial winners with 100 percent of precincts reporting. AOAIR: Richard Hoadley, John VanVleet.

ADAMS: Rhonda Millhollin, Phyllis Mullen, Kevin Wynn. ALLAMAKEE: Lennie Burke, Kathy Campbell. APPANOOSE: Dean Kaster. AUDUBON: LaVerne Deist. BENTON: Jason Sanders.

BLACK HAWK: Leon Mosley, Robert Smith. BOONE: Michael O'Brien. BREMER: Gaylord Hinderaker. BUCHANAN: Leo Donnelly, Ralph Kremer. BUENA VISTA: Jim Gustafson, Bill Lanphere, Dick Vail.

BUTLER: Ken Oldenburger, John Zimmerman. CALHOUN: Larry Hood. CARROLL: Neil Bock, Marty Danzer. CASS: Chuck Kinen, Don Volk. CEDAR: LeRoy Moeller.

Dennis Weih. CERRO GORDO: Robert Amosson. CHEROKEE: Edwin Clow, Jeff Simonsen. CHICKASAW: Arnie Boge, Sherry Mattke. CLARKE: Myron Manley.

CLAY: Kenneth Chalstrom, Joel Sorenson, Bill County Nussle Hutchinson Black Hawk 21,879 19,174 Bremer 5,309 3,048 Buchanan 4,278 2 936 Butler 3,254 1,562 Clayton 4,346 2,505 Clinton 8,931 6,797 Delaware 4,236 2.045 Dubuque 17,592 14,580 Fayette 4,876 2,707 Jackson 3,619 2,702 Jones 4,476 2679 Scott 29,103 22,553 Totals 111,899 83,288 1 MARY CHINDTHE REGISTER This is Iowa, for heaven's sake," said House Minority Leader Richard Myers, an Iowa City Democrat. "I don't know of anything that happened as far as fraud is concerned." House Majority Leader Christopher Rants, a Sioux City Republican, said there were problems. Some counties were counting absentee ballots by hand, while others had machines that rejected absentee ballots, he said. However, as of Wednesday, no one was talking about recounts or challenges. Election Day produced only a few close races that may be affected, should a recount be requested.

They include Iowa House District 6, where incumbent Democrat Greg Stevens defeated Republican Bonnie Vetter by 75 votes. Also, in Senate District 40, incumbent Republican Richard Drake defeated another incumbent, Democrat Thomas Fiegen, by 382 votes. Iowa Secretary of State Chet Culver accused Republicans of making erroneous allegations. "I just tnink that this proves once and for all that we have some of the best election laws," Culver said. Vilsack 2,315 24,126 3,809 1,892 4,055 8,196 40,733 1,591 1.657 1,100 2,878 3,034 5,293 7,587 1,714 1,963 1,767 2,463 1,321 5,547 1,809 736 1,817 1,971 2,516 1,573 78,361 11,980 3,635 1,350 1,890 27,252 1,433 2,032 16,020 3,252 1,284 2,415 1,115 7,924 8,884 3,413 967 7,487 2,127 3,443 10,770 1,694 2,317 540,757 PLYMOUTH: C.

Gordon Greene, Paul Sitzmann, Jack Spies. POCAHONTAS: Paul Beneke, Vincent Triggs. POLK: Angela Connolly, E.J. Giovannetti, Tom Hockensmith, John Mauro. POTTAWATTAMIE: Loren Knauss, Lynn Leaders, Betty Moats.

POWESHIEK: Tom Law, Sandy Muffett. RINGGOLD: David inloes, Wayne Kemery. SAC: Rick Hecht. Dean Stock. SCOn: Larry Minard, Otto Ewoldt, Gregory Adamson.

SHELBY: Roger Schmitz. SIOUX: Loren Bouma, Stanley DeHaan. STORY: Jane Halliburton, Donald Toms. TAMA: Larry Vest. TAYLOR: Robert Lundquist.

UNION: Michael King, Thomas McCann, Curt Turner. VAN BUREN: Gary Adam, Bill Randolph. WAPELLO: Jerry Parker, Mike Petersen. WARREN: Marvin Grace, Dave Mineart, Bob Sandy. WASHINGTON: Jack Dillon.

WAYNE: Don Greenlee, Jerry 0'Dell. WEBSTER: Phil Condon, James Gill, Floyd Mag-nusson. Greg Nolting. WINNEBAGO: Robert Joynt, Douglas Yeager. WINNESHIEK: Dean Darling, John Logsdon.

WOODBURY: George Boykin, Douglas Walish. WORTH: Kenneth Abrams, Dennis May. WRIGHT: Rodney Toftey. Cm I well as absentee ballots that were postmarked by Nov. 4, but were not received Tuesday.

In Polk County alone, there are 2,147 special ballots. These are voters who were not shown as registered, who had received an absentee ballot, or had a change of address. Auditor Michael Mauro said a special precinct board will begin reviewing these ballots Thursday to determine whether each will be accepted or rejected. Fraud allegations quieted after election Iowa Republicans were silent Wednesday about any challenges to Tuesday's election, despite preelection allegations of possible fraud. Two weeks ago, state Republican Party Chairman Charles Larson Jr.

questioned the tactics being used by Democrats to get absentee votes. He said the GOP had brought in a private investigator from another state to check into whether fraud had occurred. GOP officials would not say Wednesday whether that investigation will continue, now that the election is over. 2002 Governor Race Boards JACKSON: J.C. Engel.

John Willey. JASPER: Denny Carpenter, Bill Ward. JEFFERSON: Richard Reed. JOHNSON: Mike Lehman, Sally Stutsman. JONES: Joe Cruise, Andy McKean.

KEOKUK: Ernie Greiner, Carl Martin. KOSSUTH: Don Besch, Lee Froehlich, Donald McGregor. LEE: Dan Dunagan, Bob Woodruff. LINN: Linda Langston. LOUISA: Forrest Bartenhagen.

LUCAS: Larry Davis. LYON: Craig Block, Randy Bosch, Jasper Terwee. MADISON: Cy McDonald, Steve Raymond. MAHASKA: Greg Gordy, Lawrence Rauw. MARION: Howard Pothoven, Tom Wadle.

MARSHALL: Ron Goecke, John Soorholtz. MILLS: Richard Crouch. MITCHELL: Cheryl Jahnel. MONONA: Richard Merritt, Stanley Skow. MONROE: Dennis Ryan.

MONTGOMERY: Glen Benskin, Dale Carlson, Leland Carmichael, Margaret Stoldorf, Harry Vannausdle. MUSCATINE: Esther Dean, Lewis Morrison, John Oberhaus. O'BRIEN: Tom Farnsworth, Jacob Moermond. OSCEOLA: Darwin Beltman, William Imhoff, Derrick Petersen. PAGE: James Richardson.

PALO ALTO: Philip Currans, Lannie Miller, Steven Nelson. House District 5 County King Shomshor Adair 1,959 1,094 Adams 907 739 Audubon 1,337 1,027 Buena Vista 3,756 2,031 Carroll 4,147 2,785 Cass 3,562 1,614 Cherokee 2,811 1,920 Clarke 1,873 1,582 Clay 3,334 2,138 Crawford 3.430 1,285 Decatur 1,589 1,133 Dickinson 3,755 2,579 Fremont 1,525 944 Guthrie 2,495 1,575 Harrison 2,890 1 894 Ida 1,775 814 Lyon 3,313 797 Mills 2,695 1377 Monona 2,100 1,351 Montgomery 981 O'Brien 3,819 1,384 Osceola 1,667 526 Page 3,439 1,417 Plymouth 3,787 1,888 Pottawattamie 12,391 12,710 Ringgold 1,343 916 Sac 2.793 1,021 Shelby 3,006 1,554 Sioux 9,460 1,429 Taylor 1,503 916 Union 24,00 1,708 Woodbury 12,387 9,839 Totals 106,811 63,048 100 percent of precincts counted County Gross Cleveland Robinson Vilsack County Cross Cleveland Robinson Adair 6,416 185 259 9,295 Jefferson 2,563 950 128 Adams 828 15 28 866 Johnson 12,309 639 1281 Allamakee 2,516 75 118 2,226 Jones 3,199 100 126 Appanoose 2,184 38 55 2,463 Keokuk 1,966 37 30 Audubon 1,183 34 27 1,306 Kossuth 3,386 75 104 Benton 4,117 153 121 4,718 Lee 4,497 342 152 Black Hawk 16,973 474 627 23,336 Linn 30,399 936 920 Boone 3,779 102 122 5,905 Louisa 1,739 36 60 Bremer 4,048 173 114 4,056 Lucas 1,430 43 17 Buchanan 2,953 101 135 4,062 Lyon 3 104 17 24 Buena Vista 2,934 56 63 2,835 Madison 2,757 87 69 Butler 2,433 114 71 2,212 Mahaska 3,968 56 36 Calhoun 1,834 55 48 2,102 Marion 5,945 128 66 Carroll 3,534 65 75 3,793 Marshall 6,230 162 164 Cass 3,077 38 64 2,188 Mills 2,407 29 58 Cedar 3,061 101 94 3,194 Mitchell 1,552 42 66 Cerro Gordo 6,416 185 259 9,295 Monona 1,635 38 50 Cherokee 2,250 52 94 2,428 Monroe 2,184 38 55 Chickasaw 2,161 26 56 2,748 Montgomery 2,096 33 39 Clarke 1,520 72 62 2,079 Muscatine 5,337 123 186 Clay 2,847 63 62 2,748 O'Brien 3,255 32 53 Clayton 3,077 108 151 3,510 Osceola 1 493 24 22 Clinton 7,004 158 185 8,611 Page 3,062 41 39 Crawford 2,915 30 34 1,874 Palo Alto 1,534 23 43 Dallas 7,783 222 165 8,211 Plymouth 3,232 66 77 Davis 1,410 37 42 1,576 Pocahontas 1,399 66 46 Decatur 1,318 59 41 1,519 Polk 58,790 1,390 1 486 Delaware 2,967 107 71 3,095 Pottawattamie 12,915 229 354 Des Moines 5.839 231 203 8,908 Poweshiek 2,926 89 120 Dickinson 3,264 48 75 3,242 Ringgold 1,100 16 25 Dubuque 12,640 242 567 18.858 Sac 1,825 47 59 Emt 1,494 20 38 1,805 Scott 23,167 612 1 028 fayette 3,578 77 81 4,082 Shelby 3,364 33 '39 Foyd 2,169 66 90 3,128 Sioux 9 069 34 58 franklin 1,708 120 86 2,114 Story 11,193 421 651 Fremont 1,403 20 36 1,122 Tama 2,768 71 84 Greene 1,541 50 45 2,264 Taylor 1,249 28 37 Grundy 2,649 43 60 1.966 Union 1,863 84 57 Guthrie 1,927 68 48 2,264 VanBuren 1,572 68 41 Hamilton 2,686 86 77 3,264 Wapello 4,913 182 178 Hancock 2,118 59 65 1,923 Warren 6 860 165 180 Hardin 3,004 95 75 3,681 Washington 3,488 85 114 Harrison 2,625 41 64 2,186 Wayne 930 32 17 Henry 2,970 72 84 3,711 Webster 5,430 122 110 Howard 1,471 38 66 1,763 Winnebago 1,949 59 60 Humboldt 1,696 47 30 1,882 Winneshiek 3,655 91 201 Ida 1,332 19 50 1,167 Woodbury 11,156 264 286 Iowa 2,832 126 88 2,724 Worth 1,173 57 64 Jackson 2,765 62 69 3,438 Wright 2 131 35 47 Jasper 5,837 126 205 8,506 Totals 457,250 13,031 14 652 House District 2 County Leach Litten Thomas Appanoose 2,480 53 2,272 Cedar 3,885 127 2,426 Davis 1,303 43 1,691 Des Moines 7,710 317 7,035 Henry 4,141 112 2,532 Jefferson 3,385 228 2,264 Jonnson 19,381 737 18,190 Lee 5,731 385 7,000 Linn 37,846 1,380 33,719 Louisa 2,143 108 1,159 Muscatine 7,028 263 3 851 VanBuren 1,547 63 1 176 Wapello 5,516 192 7 340 Washington 4,425 121 2 535 Wayne 1,062 25 816 Totals 107,583 4,154 94,006 House District 3 County fruit Thompson Smith 143 57 99 159 23 29 52 102 32 1,778 75 101 2,650 Boswell 4,014 1,543 2,523 8,615 1,913 1,854 3,216 5,621 1,729 75,959 3,760 3,051 113,798 4,660 3,073 2,990 5,621 1,692 1,252 3,795 5,532 930 60,875 2,832 3,005 96,257 Benton Grundy Iowa Jasper Keokuk Lucas Mahaska Marion Monroe Polk Poweshiek Tama Totals 31 5 18 25 12 4 12 13 11 372 42 11 556 House District 4 County Latham Allamakee Boone Calhoun Cerro Gordo Chickasaw Dallas Emmet Floyd Franklin Greene Hamilton Hancock Hardin Howard Humboldt Kossuth Madison Marshall Mitchell Palo Alto Pocahontas Story Warren Webster Winnebago Winneshiek Worth Wright Totals 2,759 4,981 2,485 8,068 2,489 9,254 1,803 2,772 2,842 2,071 3,539 2,765 4,218 1,713 2,394 4,522 3,252 7,211 2,164 1,736 1,911 13,652 8,093 7,077 2,672 4,056 1.627 2,807 114,933 County Zinn. CLAYTON: Neil Meyer, Robert Walke. CLINTON: Jill Davisson, Lewis Todtz. CRAWFORD: Dean Hargens, Robert Lohrmann, Steve Ulmer.

DALLAS: Kim Chapman, Brad Golightly, DAVIS: Steve Evans. Dale Taylor. DECATUR: Larry Eastin. DELAWARE: Shirley Helmrichs, Steven Koeneke. DES MOINES: Edgar Blow.

DICKINSON: Mardi Allen, David Gottsche, Paul Johnson, Pamela Jordan, Wayne Northey. DUBUQUE: Eric Manternach. Donna Smith. EMMET: James Jenson, Ron Smith. FAYETTE: John Bunn, Michael Kennedy.

FLOYD: Arlin Enabnit, Leo Staudt. FRANKLIN: Michael Nolte, Jerry Plagge. FREMONT: David Aistrome, Chuck Larson. GREENE: Terrance Adams, Duane Larson. GRUNDY: Harlyn Riekena.

Mark Schildroth. GUTHRIE: Larry Laughery. HAMILTON: Barkema Dick. HANCOCK: Sis Greiman, John Torkelson. HARDIN: Ed Bear, Erv Miller.

HARRISON: HENRY: Marc Lindeen. HOWARD: Dale Fenske, Janet McGovern. HUMBOLDT: Harlan Hansen, Kay Kollmorgen, Romaine Lee. IDA: Jerry Ralston. IOWA: Charles Montross, Alice Rycke, John Tibben.

Wilson 68 128 68 204 29 231 32 84 66 61 69 64 92 44 48 74 105 170 50 14 71 553 219 138 49 85 65 18 2,899 Htnnager Norris 62 1.932 89 4,625 18 1,427 171 7,703 23 2,353 130 6,509 19 1,481 56 2,510 19 1,182 11 1,717 37 2,421 22 1,284 46 2,481 19 1,511 17 1,183 57 2,896 34 2,285 99 6,524 28 1,448 13 1,580 12 1 1,085 183 13,553 97 7,414 80 5,749 41 1,388 78 3,012 34 1,255 14 i 1,588 1,509 90,096.