PHOTO GALLERY: Voters go to polls for Fifth Ward special election

"I Voted" stickers and flags sit on top of an electronic ballot box during the Fifth Ward special elections at Rock Bridge High School on Tuesday. Candidates Susan "Tootie" Burns, Mark Jones and Laura Nauser are running to fill the vacant city council seat.   |  Breanne Bradley

Volunteers Thomas Adams, left, and Betsey David wait to sign in voters at the Fifth Ward election Tuesday at the Rock Bridge High School polling location.   |  Breanne Bradley

Columbia poll worker Gina Newby hands a registration sticker to a local voter at Forum Christian Church Tuesday. Newby has been been a poll worker in Columbia since the early 1980s and said she can't even remember when she started doing it.   |  Ben Walton/Missourian