LEWISTON — With voting in Lewiston’s mayoral runoff election open for a week, 39 people have already cast absentee ballots.
The Lewiston City Clerk’s Office on Thursday opened voting by absentee ballot and since then 100 people have requested absentee ballots.
City voters will go to the polls Dec. 13 to elect either Mark Paradis or Robert Macdonald mayor. Paradis and Macdonald were the top vote-getters in a field of five candidates at the polls Nov. 8. Paradis had 32 percent of the total votes cast and Macdonald picked up 31 percent.
City rules require a runoff, since neither candidate picked up the minimum 50 percent of the votes cast, plus one vote.
Absentee ballot rules are the same as they were for the Nov. 8 municipal election. Voters can come into the City Clerk’s Office to request a ballot or call (207) 513-3124 to have one mailed to their home.
Ballots must be requested by Dec. 8 and must be returned to the Clerk’s Office by Dec. 13.
Lewiston’s Multi-Purpose Center at 145 Birch St. will be the only polling place in the runoff election. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. The ballots will be counted by hand and results should be available that night.
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