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2024 Election Coverage

Nhatt Nichols

05 Nov 2024 — 1 min read

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Welcome to The Beacon’s 2024 Election Coverage.

We’ve partnered with the AP to provide up-to-the-minute state and national elections coverage.

Click here to view State and National Elections, or navigate to the elections tab in the menu above.

We’ll post the results of the county commissioner’s race here as soon as the results are out, which should be by 8.30 PM on Tuesday, November 5th

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