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Republican committee member raises concerns about certified primary results at Lawrence County commissioners meeting
Summary
At the July 1 Lawrence County Board of Commissioners meeting, a Republican committee member said the county's certified primary returns include precinct misassignments and incomplete write‑in reports and asked county election staff to review handwritten records.
At the July 1 Lawrence County Board of Commissioners meeting, a Republican committee member identified as Mrs. Vaughn told commissioners she had not been notified about certification of the county's primary-election results and raised multiple problems with nominating petitions and write-in records for local precincts.
The comments came during the meeting's public comment period. Mrs. Vaughn said a nominating petition for Joan Conti listed the wrong precinct on one page, that the certified results list Conti as a winner in a precinct where she said Conti does not live, and that scanned write-in records the committee received are incomplete or cropped. "This is just a simple error…
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