Confusion Left Race Unsettled

GILMER — Sheriff Anthony Betterton won his re-election bid, meanwhile confusion at one voting location threw Upshur County’s runoff election into turmoil, leaving one race unsettled Tuesday night. Betterton defeated opponent Larry Webb by 25 votes in Tuesday’s Republican Party primary runoff election. According to KETK, with no Democratic contenders, Betterton reclaimed the office for four more years with 2,318 votes to Webb’s 2,293 votes. With nine provisional ballots still to be counted, Webb said he was uncertain whether he would call for a recount.