(Sibley)– A majority of those who voted in a special election Tuesday in Osceola county were in favor of keeping the way county supervisors are elected the same as it has been.
Tuesday’s special election stemmed from a petition that was filed by those who wanted the current system changed. Nearly 62.5 percent of those who voted were in favor of keeping the current system in place. Through that system, the supervisors must reside in their own district and are elected by the citizens in that district. Districts must have close to equal population as possible. About 35.5 percent of those who voted were in favor of keeping the supervisor districts and the requirement that supervisors live in them, but every district’s supervisor would be elected at-large, by all county residents. About two percent were in favor of a system that would abolish the districts and just elect supervisors at large, with no regard to where they lived, so long as it is in the county.
997 people voted in Tuesday’s special election.
(Courtesy Community First Broadcasting station KIWA in Sheldon)
