By ELLEN MORTENSEN
Chief Managing Editor    

    It took less than two hours Tuesday night for the ballots to be counted and results announced. With less than 40 percent of registered voters in Custer County making their way to the polls, the outcome produced some expected results to many, as well as some surprises. With around 300 absentee ballots still out, the following numbers remain preliminary.
    Perhaps the two most talked about issues, locally at least, were a $9.4 million school bond proposal and a proposed .15 cent tax levy override for School District 25. Both of those issues not only failed, but did so by a sizeable margin. Results for the levy override showed 1,252 votes against and 500 votes for. Meanwhile, the school bond was defeated by a margin of about 75 percent against to 25 percent in favor, with the numbers showing 437 votes in favor of the bond and 1,315 opposed.
   For more election results, see this week's Custer County Chief.