Athens County Auditor Jill Thompson appears to have won the right to a second full term Tuesday by garnering 53 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results from the Athens County Board of Elections.
Democrat Pat Sikorski earned 47 percent (7,963) of the vote.
Thompson said she wouldn't have changed a thing about her campaign, which ended with an election night spent among family members and her staff ' and without election results. A problem with the ballot-scanning system used by the board delayed results until yesterday morning.
Sikorski, who waited for results with family and party members at a Court Street restaurant, did not concede the race yesterday, as some of the county's provisional ballots remain to be counted during the next two weeks.
Thompson was appointed to the county auditor position in October of 2000 and was elected to her first four-year term in November 2002. The incumbent Republican auditor said she is honored to have another opportunity to serve her county. We ran a really clean race
focusing on our accomplishments she said. There was a lot of pressure in this race to go negative.
Sikorski, who has served as Trimble Township Clerk for 19 years, said her only regret was not campaigning door-to-door, as Thompson did.
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