Workers in the Madison County Clerk’s Office are busy counting and verifying signatures of those seeking to make alcohol sales legal across the entire county. If enough valid signatures are found, the wet-dry referendum would appear on the May Primary ballot. Madison County Clerk Kenny Barger said a final number could be known in the next day or so.
“But it’s the largest petition we’ve ever gotten by far. The last one had 33 hundred signatures needed for the tax petition a few years ago. So, it’s a process. We can get through about..each person can do about 300 a day. And we’ve got three to four people working on it, so a little time-consuming,” said Barger.
