Cooper Earns GOP Nomination for Sheriff

 for this November's sheriff race against Democrat Stan Barry, carrying 76.34 percent of the vote.

Cooper defeated H. Wes Kammerer in his bid for the GOP nomination, racking up 11,663 votes out of the 15,277 ballots cast in the county.

Voters at Fairfax City precincts followed the trend of the rest of the county, casting more than 66 percent of their votes for Cooper.

The general election is scheduled for Nov. 8, when voters will cast their ballots for sheriff, the General Assembly, Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, Fairfax County School Board and the Fairfax County Water Authority.

Here are results from four of the precincts at which Oakton residents cast their ballots:

4. Fairfax City Hall

5. Fairfax High School

6. Christ Lutheran Church  

Absentee

18 (36%)

8 (34%)

6 (20%)

7 (46%)

31 (63%)

15 (65%)

24 (80%)

8 (53%)

Though voter turnout may have been low, the ones who showed up did so because of a sense of civic duty.

"It's my absolute obligation and duty whenever I have the chance to vote," said Ann Landy, who cast her ballot at Oakton High School on Tuesday afternoon. I look at the atmosphere, the anxiety, the anger, and I just think you can only complain so much without voting."

Or as voter Nancy Yinger put it: "I vote so I can complain. If you don't vote, you abdicate the right to complain."