Behind the Headlines

Absentee voters in the City of Monroe cast ballots in record numbers, submitting 2,535 ballots, according to Loretta Hopson of the city clerk’s office.
She said usually in a Presidential election year, about 2,000 absentee votes, at most, are cast. “This is a record,” she said.
Cory Solomon and Olympio Varsogea helped tally the AV ballots and noted that some came from distant places, such as Spain, Italy, New Zealand and South Africa.
A lot of the local ballots also came in with postage due largely because an absentee ballot takes at least two stamps to get through the mail.