Farmers Branch approves canvass, sets June 13 mayoral runoff; mayor raises concern over uncounted mail ballots

The City of Farmers Branch City Council approved Ordinance 4002 to canvass the May election results, declare the successful District 2 candidate, and order a mayoral runoff to be held June 13, 2026. The motion passed with a mover and seconder; the transcript records the motion and that it passed but does not include a roll‑call tally.

Councilman Neal moved to approve Ordinance 4002; a councilwoman seconded and the mayor announced the motion passed.

Before the vote, the mayor told the council he had spoken with Dallas County Commissioner Andy Summerman and relayed a concern that Dallas County had received about 600 mail ballots for the election, of which approximately 500 were not counted because they arrived after election day. "They are not in the count," the mayor said, adding that this raised questions about whether some mailed ballots were rejected for arriving late even if they had been postmarked earlier.

The mayor said he had heard a county‑election department figure suggesting about 10% of those late ballots could have been allocated to Farmers Branch, and he said the numbers reduced his confidence in the counts reported by the election department. He described the matter as a "huge problem" he plans to discuss further with the commissioner.

The transcript does not contain a response from county elections officials in the meeting, and no vote tally was recorded in the council's spoken minutes. The council approved the canvass ordinance and set the date, time, and polling places for the runoff as part of that action.

The council adjourned at 4:24 p.m.