Some voters in Tyrone will

need to do a little bit of extra driving to get all of their ballots cast

in next Tuesday's elections.

Of course, polls across Fayette

County will be open for the statewide elections, as citizen decide on

offices from governor on down and in various state House and Senate districts.

Both county commission races were decided in the primary, and both Board

of Education races have unopposed candidates.

But there is one seat up for

grabs on the Tyrone Town Council, as incumbent Ronnie Cannon faces Mike

Smola. While the other municipalities in Fayette have their elected officials

serve four-year terms, with some of them elected every odd-numbered year,

Tyrone officials still serve two-year terms, which means someone is running

every year, according to an official with the county's Election Board,

which contracts with all of the municipalities to run their elections.

All ballots in the Town Council

race will be cast at the First Baptist Church of Tyrone, which is also

the county precinct location for most town residents. But some folks in

Tyrone go to either Grace Evangelical Church of Hopewell First United

Methodist Church to vote for countywide and statewide races, and if those

people want to vote for the council as well, it will require two separate

trips.

Election officials will be

present at the Baptist church solely to direct traffic, asking voters

as they arrive if they are there for the town election or the county election,

as they are in separate areas of the church.

Voters in Tyrone wanting to

cast absentee ballots will need to specifically request both ballots,

election officials said. While the walk-in absentee requests are being

handled easily, those who request absentee ballots by mail need to remember

to ask for both.

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