Gonzales County commissioners approve canvas of Nov. 5, 2024 general election

GONZALES COUNTY — At a special Gonzales County Commissioners session in November 2024, the commissioners voted to approve the canvas of the Nov. 5, 2024 general election, commissioners confirmed during the meeting.

County staff reported one election-day discrepancy: "The only discrepancy we had during the entire thing was election day. We had one off with the bracings. They said to somebody and walked out the ballot. Once they walked me out, they can't come back in," an unidentified county staff member told the board. The transcript does not identify who intervened or whether the ballot in question affected results.

The staff report presented vote counts at the meeting as follows: 285 absentee ballots, 5,941 early votes and 1,568 election-day votes, for a reported total of 7,794 ballots. Unidentified Speaker 1 summarized turnout as "nearly 60% of registered voters voted." These numbers are reported from the meeting transcript; the transcript shows spacing and formatting irregularities in the raw text and the totals are presented here as reported in the session.

Unidentified Speaker 2 moved to approve the canvas of the Nov. 5, 2024 general election; a second was indicated in the transcript but the seconder is not clearly identified. The presiding speaker called for the question; those present responded "Aye," and the presiding speaker declared the motion carried. Commissioner Colleen Boatwright was noted as absent for the session.

The transcript ends with the motion carrying; no further formal actions on the canvas are recorded in the provided portion of the meeting.