I don’t know how many of you were following the election news yesterday. The department of elections announced that the special election to fill the empty New Castle County Council President seat will be on Tuesday, January 11, um sorry, Thursday January 13.
New Castle County’s special election for council president will be on Thursday, Jan. 13, according to county elections director Anthony Albence.
Albence first said Monday morning that the special election would be held on Tuesday, Jan. 11. But officials decided to change the date to Thursday because of scheduling conflicts cited by election participants, Albence said early Monday evening.
But after that date was reported here at Dialogue Delaware, the Department of Elections received several calls from unnamed elected officials complaining about the date. They cited two scheduling conflicts: Jan. 11 is the first day of the 146th General Assembly’s 2010 legislative session and the night New Castle County row officers are sworn into office, Albence said.
The county elections department will post the official notice on Tuesday, Albence said.
Nothing screams high turnout election more than voting on Thursday in January. I can understand why they needed to change the election date though – state legislators and county council members are probably the few voters they could count on to show up.