Official Nov. 6 Results Way Higher

Over my years of reporting on election results, I do not recall as wide a difference as I see today on the official results versus unofficial tallies after the polls closed on Nov. 6. For example, election night reports gave school board candidate Keisha Edwards 3,432 votes, but the official count is 4,000 votes. That is a 17 percent difference.

Here are the school board results.
Unofficial/Official

Three three-year seats

Jackie Coley 2,207/2,578
Mahogany Hendricks 3,702/4,249
Catherine Crittendon 929/1,236
Dollie Hamlin 1,358/1,780
Keisha Edwards 3,432/4,000

One one-year unexpired term
Delois Dameron 2,694/3,130
Frederick D. Moore Sr. 2,265/2,615

The added votes did not affect the outcome. The winners are the same.

More about this later.

--Bernice