About the votes for the Sheriff

This afternoon there was quite an online discussion about the number of votes that registered for the office of Sheriff.

The final tallies per office were as follows:

Sheriff: 2740
Chancery Clerk: 2381
Circuit Clerk: 2340
Attorney: 2281
Coroner: 2291

For the office of Sheriff there were two candidates.  For the other 4 offices, the candidates were unopposed.

To believe the tally for the office of Sheriff to be accurate, one would have to believe that 359 voters voted for one of the two candidates for Sheriff and didn't cast a vote for Chancery Clerk.  Another way to look at this would be to say that 13% of the voters who voted for one of the two candidates for Sheriff; didn't cast a vote for Chancery Clerk.  For the other 3 offices the numerical spread is larger and therefore so is the percentage.

During the online discussion, comments were made about people not voting for people they don't know or if a candidate is unopposed or whatever whatever.  That's all well and good but is it true?

I don't know.