All it takes is one vote to win. Just ask a Tennessee woman who was elected constable by voting for herself.
Angela Tuttle, 32, said her father encouraged her to run as a write-in candidate because no one else was vying for one of the positions in Hancock County, which is in northeastern Tennessee.
Tuttle said her husband initially didn't even realize she was running.
"I finally told him about a month before the election," she told The Associated Press on Friday. Her husband didn't think she would win, but now he "just grins at her," she said.
Hancock County election officials said 131 voters of the 674 registered in the 3rd District voted Thursday. Tuttle's vote was the only one cast in the constable race. She will be sworn in Dec. 1.
Aug 11, 2008
Constable election won by 1 vote—her own
A report at the link below says: