Elections Board Decides To Rescan All June 9 Absentee Ballots

The Oconee County Board of Elections and Registration on Tuesday voted unanimously to toss out the initial scanning of the 7,424 absentee ballots cast in the June 9 election and to rescan those ballots before the county’s election results are certified on Friday.

The Board took the action on the recommendation of Fran Leathers, who is chair of the Board and director of Elections and Registration for the county.

Leathers told the other four members of the Board at the Tuesday meeting that she observed that the scanner did not record all of the votes marked on some of the ballots.

The review will only be of the Absentee Ballots, Leathers said, and she did not believe the results of any of the local elections would be altered by the review.

“There are not all that many, from what I can tell,” Leathers said.

Leather said that she and her staff could complete the scanning in time for the Board to meet and certify the results at 1 p.m. on Friday.

For more on the story with a video of the Board of Elections and Registration meeting, please go to Oconee County Observations.