Kathy Bockus/CourierYou voted, we voted, everyone voted on Monday and the Courier's coverage of the 2008 municipal election night is on newsstands now.
Two reporters, five election races, a few hours of time to work with... so, what do you think? Leave a comment or e-mail editor@stcroixcourier.ca
Election coverage was a little different this year due to automated vote counting - an efficient and awesome innovation that's going to be a standard soon. Normally the press and candidates sweat out election night together at the returning office. Votes are phoned in from the polls and an election worker writes the numbers on a mural in magic marker. We all do the math and hours later a winner emerges.
It was always handy to have most of the candidates in one place on election night but this year the rules changed. The candidates were spread all over Charlotte County but our news team of Kathy Bockus and Barb Rayner tracked them down.
We opted to go with Jed Purcell as our front page photo for a few reasons - 1. St. Stephen is still our biggest reader base; 2. Purcell's win was unique in that he defeated an experienced, veteran incumbent in Allan Gillmor while the rest of the county voted their incumbents back in and 3. It was a great photo that captured the spirit of last night's celebrations.
St. George and its new mayor, Sharon Tucker, became our line story because Tucker (or Ronnie Cousins had she won) made history as the Granite Town's first female mayor.
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