Islanders Cast Their Votes

Marco Islanders, like many throughout the State of Florida, would take advantage of both mail-in-voting, early voting and the traditional in-person voting by precinct on Tuesday, November 8. All of this was done in the greatest of American traditions, at the ballot box.

Of the 253,830 eligible voters in Collier County a total of 164,166 cast their ballots for their choices for various elected positions, as well as other questions which appeared on the ballot. That would account for 64.7% of those eligible to vote in the 66 Precincts within Collier County.

In the Marco Island City Council Election incumbent councilor Greg Folley would garner a total of 7,021 total votes for that four-year term. He was closely followed by incumbent Councilor Erik Brechnitz with a total of 6,953 votes. The third available seat was won by newcomer Darrin Palumbo with 4,027 votes in the battle for the three available seats up for election.

Two other newcomers, Christine Dowell would receive 3,603 votes and Nanette Rivera would trail Dowell by only 40 votes with a total of 3,563 votes.

In the District One School Board race Jerry D. Rutherford would easily outpace incumbent Jory Westberry by a vote tally of 90,715 versus 47,951 votes.

In the District Three race, Kelly Lichter won that seat with a total of 80,770 votes versus incumbent Jen Mitchell with 57,899 votes.

In the District Five race for that seat would see Timothy Mosher with 83,129 votes defeat incumbent Roy Terry who would poll a total of 54,227 votes.

Those three District races were forced into run-offs as the initial voting during the Primaries held in August never produced a 50% vote plurality for any one candidate, which may have seen more than three persons running for those “non-partisan” seats in each of those District races.

The Coastal Breeze News will have a more detailed look at the other races in which votes were cast and a profile on how voters would choose to cast their votes during the 2022 election.