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Anniston precinct vote totals read aloud during canvass of municipal election returns
Summary
An election official read precinct-level vote totals for Anniston mayoral, city council ward and Board of Education races during a canvass; officials said certification would follow the readings.
An election official read precinct-level vote totals for Anniston’s municipal contests during a canvass, listing returns for mayor, city council wards and Anniston Board of Education races across multiple polling places.
The readings covered several precincts and included vote totals for mayoral candidates, city council Ward candidates and at-large Board of Education candidates. The official indicated that certification of the results would follow the reading of precinct returns.
The official recited totals from multiple locations. Examples included: “For mayor, Kevin Sheatwood, 42 votes. Steven Potts, 69 votes. Ben Little, 31 votes. Sierra Smith, 272 votes.” From another precinct the reader reported: “For City Council Ward 1, Louis Downey, 280 votes. Ben New, 24 votes. John Swires, 18 votes. Brinson Olson, 97 votes for a total of 423 votes.” At the Anniston City Meeting Center, the reader said precinct totals were: “For the position of mayor, Kevin Cheatwood, 9 votes. Stephen Folks, 35 votes. Ben Little, 55 votes. Sierra Smith, 81 votes.”
Other precincts and sample totals the official read included the Carver Community Center, Wiggins Community Center, South Highland Community Center, Anniston Country Club and Norwood Hodges Community Center. Reported totals for at-large Anniston Board of Education candidates included repeated tallies for Trina Chapman, Donald Gilley and Robert Houston across precincts; examples given were “Trina Chapman, 90 votes. Donald Gilley, 166 votes. Robert Houston, 140 votes” and later “Trina Chapman, 30 votes. Donald Gilley, 166 votes. Robert Houston, 64 votes.”
The readings frequently noted a precinct total after listing candidates (for example, “for a total of 423 votes,” “total votes are 308,” and “the total votes for this precinct is 414”). The official also named the precinct location as the reader moved through wards 1–4 and multiple community centers.
No formal motions or roll-call votes on election outcomes were recorded in the provided transcript excerpt. The official said that, after completing the readings, certification of the results would take place as part of the canvass.
The canvass readings are part of the public record of returns; further procedural steps, including any formal certification vote and the timeline for that action, were not specified in the excerpt.
