Election officials have canceled the city of Vincennes’ May primary because for the first time in decades there are no contested races needing voters’ input.
Knox County Clerk-Treasurer Terri Allen says the county’s three-member election board recently voted to call off Vincennes’ primary election since there is no need to have one.
Allen says Vincennes will save about $20,000, if not more, by not holding a primary.
Allen tells the Vincennes Sun-Commercial that election board members were “pretty surprised” that there were no contested races in the city’s slate of races.
She says that hasn’t happened in her quarter-century of working at the county courthouse in the city about 40 miles north of Evansville.
Election board member Bob Slayton calls the lack of contested races “very unusual.”
Washington also is not having an election for the same reason and the same for cities in Pike County. There will be a school tax levy referendum on the ballot this year for Pike County residents to vote on.
