Carroll County voters supported both statewide Constitutional Amendments, backing Question 2, legalizing slot machines at specific venues in Maryland, with 58.78 percent of the vote in favor and 48.22 percent opposed.

Question 1, which will allow the state legislature to create an early voting provision, also gained Carroll County support, 52.49 percent to 47.51 percent.

Both of those measures also passed the statewide vote.

Regarding the race for President and the 6th Congressional District, Carroll County continued to place itself in the conservative column, giving the nod for a new term for incumbent 6th District Congressional Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R) over challenger Jennifer Dougherty (D); and also backing Republicans Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin in their bid for the White House.

Bartlett received 50,067 votes in Carroll County (63.96 percent) while Dougherty received 25,686 votes (32.82 percent). Bartlett's district spans Carroll, Frederick and much of Western Maryland. Bartlett carried the rest of the district to reclaim his seat.

McCain-Palin got 53,539 votes in Carroll County (64.37 percent) compared to the Democrat ticket of Sens. Barack Obama and Joe Biden, which received 27,481 votes (33.04 percent) in the county. But across the state and the nation, Obama prevailed.

Overall turnout in Carroll County was 79,406, or 75.30 percent of registered voters.

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