Pat Raffee, deputy county clerk, tells Huckleberries that the countywide turnout for the school/hospital board elections is light, 3 percent of the total registered voters so far. But it was better than two years ago. According to Elections Manager Carrie Phillips, the elections office has received 2,450 absentee ballots -- 1754 by mail and 496 in person. However, the number represents about 700 more absentee ballots than were cast in 2011. Earlier this month, Raffee told Huckleberries that the first results she come in by 9 p.m. and the last by 11 p.m.