BEATRICE – Some election races for area village boards in Gage County were close enough this past election, the Gage County Clerk’s office is looking into the matter of potential recounts.

Clerk and Election Commissioner Dawn Hill says she hopes to sort it all out this week, but it depends on the counting of provisional ballots and what state law determines as to whether recounts are automatically warranted.

One of the closes races was for the Cortland Village Board, where three of four candidates running for two positions… finished only two votes apart. 

Taylor Burkey and Chase Meints both finished with 127 votes, while Chaddwick Ziemann was only two votes behind, with 125.  A fourth candidate, Dustin McGee, picked up 110 votes.

The Village Board of Filley was another close contest, with four candidates running for three positions.

Jordan Junker received 53 votes, followed by Donald Alm, with 50.  Only one vote separated the third and fourth place candidates, with Randy Schmidt receiving 48 votes, and Nicole Bursovsky, 47.

Two smaller villages in Gage County where two candidates are to be elected had tight voting…..Virginia and Liberty.  

In Virginia, Max Harder led the way with 23 votes…Linda Searcey had 17…Lee Cramer, 15…and Denise Spilker, 12.

In Liberty, Gloria Thomsen led with 21 votes…but Susan Tallant and Roger Theye were tied, with 14 votes apiece.