VOTES
VOTES HAVE BEEN CAST-- BALLOTS ARE BEING COUNTED-- ALL TO
DETERMINE THE FUTURE
OF CITIES AND COUNTIES
ALL ACROSS THE
TREASURE VALLEY.
ELECTION POLLS
WRAPPED UP ROUGHLY
TWO HOURS AGO-- BUT
SOME OF THE RACES ARE
EXPECTED TO RUN WELL
INTO THE EVENING--
POSSIBLY STRETCHING
INTO THE EARLY
MORNING... AND POSSIBLY LONGER.
LONGER.
WE
WE BEGIN
WE BEGIN WITH THE BIGGEST RACE-- BOISE RESIDENTS CHOOSING
THE LEADER OF IDAHO'S
CAPITAL CITY.
CAPITAL CITY.
THERE'S
THERE'S A
THERE'S A CROWDED FIELD TAKING ON THE INCUMBENT, DAVE BIETER.
AS WE LOOK AT THE
RESULTS.... PROPS
PROPS
AND
AND IN
AND IN MERIDIAN -- ANOTHER CROWDED RACE.
RACE.
5
5 CANDIDATES ARE RUNNING TO BE MAYOR OF THE SECOND LARGEST
CITY IN IDAHO.
HERE ARE THE RESULTS.
EAGLE
EAGLE MAYOR WE HAVE A TEAM OF REPORTERS COVERING ALL
OF THE LOCAL RACES.
MISTY INGLET IS IN
CANYON COUNTY...
JOE PARRIS IS WORKING
THE NUMBERS ON THE BIG
SCREEN IN THE STUDIO...
BUT WE BEGIN WITH JOEY
PRECHTL-- COVERING THE
ELECTION FOR BOISE'S
NEXT MAYOR....HE JOINS
US FROM LAUREN
MCCAIN'S WATH PARTY IN
DOWNTOWN BOISE.....
DOWNTOWN BOISE.....
-
- DAVE
- DAVE BIETER TRYING TO WIN RE-ELECTION FOR FIFTH TERM.
- LAUREN MCLEAN AND
FIVE OTHER CANDIDATES
CHALLENGING HIM.
- RUN-OFF WILL HAPPEN
IF NO CANDIDATE GETS A
MAJORITY.
-THAT WILL HAPPEN 30
DAYS FROM TODAY ON
DEC. 3RD.
- FIRST RUN OFF IN CITY
HISTORY IF THAT
HAPPENS.
- NEXT CANDIDATE
BEHIND MCLEAN AND
BIETER IS REBECCA
ARNOLD -- ACHD
PRESIDENT.
PRESIDENT.
ANOTHER
ANOTHER REASON WE ARE KEEPING A CLOSE EYE ON BOISE RESULTS...A
CHANCE FOR A RUNOFF.
THERE ARE SEVEN
CANDIDATES RUNNING
FOR MAYOR OF THE CITY
OF TREES-- AND THREE IN
EAGLE.
IF NO ONE SINGLE
MAYORAL CANDIDATE
GETS AT LEAST 50
PERCENT PLUS ONE VOTE
-- THE MAYOR'S RACE
WILL GO TO A RUNOFF.
THE TOP TWO FINISHERS
WILL THEN GO HEAD TO
HEAD IN THE RUNOFF.
THE CITY OF BOISE HAS
NEVER HAD A RUNOFF
VOTE FOR MAYOR.
THE LAST TIME IT CAME
CLOSE?
16 YEARS AGO -- WHEN
MAYOR BIETER WAS FIRST
ELECTED.
IF NEEDED -- BOISE'S
RUNOFF VOTE WOULD
TAKE PLACE DECEMBER
3-RD.
AN INTERESTING NOTE--
MERIDIAN DOES NOT
HAVE A RUNOFF POLICY IN
PLACE... MEANING SIMPLE
MAJORITY WINS.
MAJORITY WINS.
MOVING
MOVING TO
MOVING TO MERIDIAN... WHERE FIVE CANDIDATES ARE RUNNING FOR AN
OPEN MAYOR'S SEAT.
MISTY INGLET IS
FOLLOWING THIS RACE
FOR US TONIGHT.
SHE JOINS US FROM THE
ROBERT SIMISON WATCH
PARTY IN MERIDIAN....
MISTY?
MISTY?
THERE
THERE ARE
THERE ARE PLENTY OF OTHER RACES AND BALLOT MEASURES THROUGHOUT
THE REGION.
JOE PARRIS IS IN STUDIO
NOW WITH AN IN DEPTH
LOOK AT THE RESULTS
COMING IN.
COMING IN.