Who won? Arkansas county still counting votes, officials say

PHILLIPS COUNTY, Ark. — As of Thursday, voters and candidates nonetheless don’t know who received in Phillips County in Arkansas.

The Arkansas Secretary of State instructed FOX13 Information that the county’s election coordinator Cal Wooldridge has stopped speaking with the workplace.

Reached by FOX13, Wooldridge stated that there have been issues with machines on Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 8.

He added that he had 1000’s of votes to enter by hand right into a laptop computer earlier than the outcomes might be turned in to the state.

A map on the state election outcomes web site exhibits Phillips is the one county in Arkansas to not report outcomes from this week’s elections.

Phillips County voter Betty Brown says this information considerations her.

”The one factor they’ll say is that it’s within the voting system, they usually haven’t counted or most likely some stuff is occurring,” Brown stated

A spokesperson for the state secretary’s workplace stated that Wooldridge has stopped speaking. And when the workplace tried to get in touch with him, he acted just like the workplace is bothering him, the spokesperson stated.

Wooldridge stated that may be a lie.

He stated that he has taken time without work from his fulltime job and volunteered to be an election coordinator.

The secretary of State’s workplace stated it despatched staff to assist Wooldridge however to no avail.

Wooldridge stated that he accepted the assistance, however he nonetheless had votes to enter and declined to speak additional with FOX13.

The Secretary of State’s workplace stated it didn’t have a transparent image of what’s going on in Phillips County.

Voter Patricia Davis says the state must step in.

”Do it, and are available assist and get it over with,” she stated. “Let’s see who has what and who’s going to run what, as a result of we wish to run what and we wish to know who’s going to be over all the things so we are able to know.”

The county clerk’s workplace additionally says it has not gotten outcomes from Woolridge to put up.

Beneath state legislation, votes have to be licensed by Wednesday.

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