The results from last month’s primary and special elections have been certified without additional legal action or a formal request for recount.
Butler County Bureau of Elections Director Shari Brewer:
“As soon as we finish the official canvassing of the ballots which we did last week, we have one signing. Then we wait five days and that’s the appeal process. At the end of those five days, the Board of Elections signs them again and then they become official.”
Those official results will now be submitted to the state and 46 people throughout the county who won elections through write-in votes will be asked if they accept the positions they have been nominated for.
Brewer said that she learned a great deal through the legal challenge process of the past couple of weeks when Butler County Court of Common Pleas judicial candidate Jennifer Gilliland Vanasdale filed motions questioning the legitimacy of her six vote loss in the race for Democratic nominee.
“Some things you learn as you go and I’ve never been faced with this situation before so this certainly was a learning experience. But its knowledge that I have now that I will be prepared for anything like this that would happen again. I hope that I don’t ever have to use that knowledge again but if I do, I am confident that I can proceed properly.”
The Butler County Bureau of Elections will next move on to getting the new voting system implemented and ready for this fall’s general election. Brewer was not in her current position in 2006 when the current voting system was put in place.
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