All county residents could vote in the county commissioner Dist. 2 race, and for candidates in each of the three school board districts. But those names didn’t all appear on the sample ballot online.

The website just launched in advance of the primary, and it still has a few glitches, said the Indiana Election Board’s Dale Simmons.

“It’s a very complicated system,” added Jeremy Burton, a Brown County High School graduate who now works with the IEB. “Not every precinct is coming up correctly.”

The ballots at the polls, Simmons confirmed, were correct.

According to Indiana Code, all three county commissioners are elected by the whole county, but candidates must live in the county in which they are running.

School board candidates are the same way — at least, in Brown County.

Other counties treat school board seats like county council seats, for which voters only in a particular district can vote for those candidates.

Overall, though the primary ran smoothly, according to Election Board of Brown County secretary Beth Mulry.

“We had some new equipment, but our tech support and (election board) team worked together well,” she said.

The election drew 3,969, or 33.27 percent of 11,931 registered voters.

“It’s an average turnout for voters and absentees,” Mulry said.

There were 416 absentee ballots cast.

Read reaction from candidates and detailed vote totals in the May 5 issue of the Brown County Democrat.