UPDATE 7:47 p.m. - Election Day in the Stevensburg District

Katie Dolac / Culpeper Star Exponent
Published: November 6, 2007

By mid-afternoon more than 500 voters turned out to vote at the Brandy Station Fire Department.

Election officials Charmaine Dill and Tasha Elliott said turnout at the Stevensburg distriuct site has been going steady since the polls opened at 6 a.m.

As voters trickled in and out during the afternoon, much of the talk focused around the Sheriff's race between Maj. Jim Branch and Sgt. Scott Jenkins.

Voters said they were fed up with "mudslinging" between the two candidates.

"It's nasty," voter Gary Burwell said. "I've never seen a Sheriff's race this kind of nasty."

"There's been a lot of he-said, he-said … back and forth between the candidates and who's campaigning for them," voter Sheila Rutherford, 33, said as she put her 20-month old son in his car seat. "I definitely had a strong opinion about who I wanted to win the race."

Despite the politics surrounding the Sheriff's race, several voters also expressed concern over the Virginia Senate and the commissioner of the revenue races.

"If you don't vote, you don't have a right to complain," Rutherford smiled.