The numbers reported by the Marshall News Messenger in their Sunday article about Mr. Williams election victory were a little confusing. It gave Mr. William 252 votes and Mr. Allin 170 votes and then said the difference was 48 votes.
At first I thought they were using some form of new math. Actually, the final vote count was: Williams 303 and Allin 255 which is a difference of 48 votes.
We believe that the MNM was trying to make a very important point with its numbers. The number they used were the numbers at the end mail-in and early walk-in voting.
It shows that because of low voter turnout the election was really decide before election day.
Another interesting number if you count the vote of people that actually walked into the polling place to vote on Elections day or early voting Mr. Allin would have won. The mail-in machine made the difference.