I got my certification certificate from the county clerk yesterday, verifying I was re-elected to my village board of trustees (city council). Since I had to go into town to renew my license plates on my car, I stopped by her office to get some numbers about the election.
More below the orange ballot.
Voting here is by mail: the state chose to allow counties to shut polling precincts in rural areas. The issue was not over voting fraud, but cost of maintaining polling places in a county with a population density of <2 per square mile.
Broadwater has only one precinct (our Zip Code), but depending on your address you got one of two ballots. If you live within the city limits (despite being a town of 128 we are an incorporated city), you got a ballot that included the village board election. If you live outside the city limits, that part of the ballot was blank.
She told me that the county is very pleased with the new system of mail ballots (currently used in three unincorporated towns and Broadwater); voter turnout is much higher than in the past.
(At this point I would note that in a state that overwhelmingly votes Republican, there is no debate about requiring IDs to vote and such - and if voter impersonation fraud were actually a thing, I would think the easiest way to perpetrate it would be through mail ballots.)
At any rate, she could not easily divide up those ballots that are the rural area surrounding the city and those that are within it, without actually counting physical ballots. I did not wish to put her to that much trouble.
So our turnout here was as follows:
Broadwater: 222 registered voters, 132 votes cast (59.46%). For a midterm election, that is exceptional.
Unlike the rest of the county, our village board election was competitive (four people running for three seats, top three win). In the rest of the county, almost all the seats were unopposed Republicans (Bridgeport mayor excepted: two people ran for that seat; the mayor was re-elected). By law local elections are non-partisan (though just about everyone in the county besides me is a Republican).
Morrill County: (she did not give me the numbers, just the percentage): 48.61%. Not bad for an election where most of the seats were uncontested.
The next village board meeting is 1 December (barring an emergency). At that meeting I will take the affirmation of office for a four year term. (I was selected for the board in December 2012 after the death of a long-serving member; this is the first election I have appeared on a ballot.)
So if you live in places where elections are closer and/or contested (North Carolina, Texas, &c), and cries of voter fraud are being bandied about as if millions of foreigners are crashing the borders to stuff ballot boxes, note that in places like Nebraska they are trying to make voting easier and voter fraud never comes up (except with national politicians).
Perhaps a question to ask when voter fraud allegations come up might be why the person making the allegation is only concerned about it in some states, not all of them?