Election day sees record turnout

The official tallies appear to show a record-breaking turnout for Crook County at the general election, with a total of 4368 ballots cast.

This outstripped the 4143 ballots cast during the last presidential election in 2020, which then-County Clerk Linda Fritz said at the time was the most she’d seen in her 22 years of working for the county.

In the prior presidential election of 2016, for example, 3866 ballots were cast, while 3718 people voted at the general in 2012 and 3706 in 2008.

Presidential election years have historically seen a higher number of votes cast in Crook County, with much h...