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Officials review fall election canvass, note turnout figures and candidate totals
Summary
A special meeting to canvass a fall election reviewed registration and turnout numbers and listed candidate vote totals; members indicated they would sign the canvass, though the transcript shows inconsistent vote counts that were not resolved on record.
Unidentified Speaker opened a special meeting to canvass the fall election and announced a summary of registration and turnout, saying, "We only have 1 election... 102 registered voters, 62 voted." The speaker then read candidate totals: "Taylor Farris, 44; Laurie Young, 41; Robert Carville, 22; Kenny Bridal, 14."
The meeting included brief confirmation from participants and a short procedural discussion about accepting the canvass. When the speaker asked for questions and noted, "Need a motion to accept the canvas," participants agreed there would be no formal roll-call vote recorded in the transcript and that members would sign the canvass afterward: "We'll just sign when we're done."
The transcript records the group closing the motion and ending the meeting with the speaker saying, "Motion closed. Second, we're closed." The record contains no explicit mover, seconder, or roll-call vote totals, and no written certification appears in the transcript.
Notably, the numerical details in the spoken record are internally inconsistent: the speaker reported 62 voters cast ballots but then listed candidate totals that add to 121. The transcript does not resolve or explain that discrepancy, and the meeting ended with an instruction to sign the canvass rather than a documented reconciliation in the minutes.
