Carbon County officials commended the election staff and poll workers for running a smooth primary on Tuesday.

During the weekly commissioners’ meeting, the board each spoke about their thoughts on the new director and assistant director, as well as how the elections operations went.

“Our election department did a very outstanding job,” said Commissioner Rocky Ahner. “I mean, from the director all the way down to the poll workers. ... We had a lot of new people, a new director and a lot of new people in the department. I don’t think it could have went any better so I have to commend them on what they did. Sometimes, when you get a new group in, it’s a little scary that it isn’t going to go right, but they proved us right that we made the right decision.”

Commissioner Chris Lukasevich pointed out that both the elections director and assistant director were hired within 63 days of the election.

“To see it play out as well as it did, it is a testament to their work and I also have to give great credit to Jane (Krebs), who’s been there to help both of them through this transition,” he said.

Lukasevich also highlighted several employees in various departments who help with the elections, seasonal elections employees and rovers.

Commissioners’ Chairman Wayne Nothstein echoed his colleagues’ thoughts.

“I think they did a great job. It was a lot of tedious work,” he said.

There were only a few minor issues throughout the elections that were noted, with Ahner saying the biggest complaint he received were people being impatient with getting results. Carbon County began posting results shortly before 9 p.m., one hour after the polls closed.

Nothstein said the biggest complaint he got was using the Sharpies for write-in votes because there wasn’t enough space to write in a person using the thick marker. The commissioners said maybe they will look into the fine tip markers for this purpose.

Carbon now is working on write-in votes cast during the election. The process began at 9 a.m. at the start of canvassing. These results will be reported after the counts are completed.

Lukasevich said that all votes must be certified by the counties within 20 days of the start of canvassing. Until then, all results are unofficial.