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MINUTES OF THE CITY OF OCOEE CANVASSING BOARD MEETING HELD
APRIL 12, 2000
CALL TO ORDER
Mayor Vandergrift called the Canvassing Board to order at 12:08 p.m. in the Commission
Chambers Conference Room. The roll was called and a quorum declared present.
PRESENT: Mayor Vandergrift, Commissioner Johnson and Commissioner Parker. Also
present were Assistant City Attorney Cookson, City Clerk Grafton, and Deputy City Clerk
Green.
Also attending were Commissioner Anderson and Candidate Martha Lopez-Anderson.
ABSENT:
Commissioner Howell.
City Clerk Grafton announced the tabulator results from the Runoff Election for Commissioner,
District 2 held on April 11 as follows:
Scott Anderson 389
Martha Lopez-Anderson 178
Not counted 0
Undervotes 0
Overvotes 0
Mrs. Grafton said the books had closed for voter registration for this election on March 13,
2000, and noted there were 2,961 total registered voters in Ocoee District 2 as of April 11, 2000.
Mrs. Grafton reported that 126 absentee ballots had been requested and 92 absentee ballots had
been returned. She read a re-cap of criteria to be used in reviewing absentee ballots. She said the
Elections Office verified all the signatures and had found 86 of the 92 ballots to be acceptable.
Six absentee ballots were found unacceptable as follows:
2 - no signature
1 - no witness
2 - incomplete witness
1 - signature did not match with that on file in the Elections Office.
Commissioner Parker. seconded bv Commissioner Johnson. moved to accept the decision of
the Supervisor of Elections office on the reiected ballots. Motion carried 3-0.
Attorney Cookson verified there were 86 ballots to be opened. All members removed the
ballots from the mailing envelopes. Then all members removed the ballots from the secrecy
envelopes and sorted and counted them by candidate.
Ocoee Canvassing Board
April 12, 2000
City Clerk Grafton read the results of the absentee ballot count and gave the totals of both
counts as follows:
Tabulator Count Absentee Ballot Count Total
Scott Anderson 389 32 421
Martha Lopez-Anderson 178 54 232
Total 567 86 653
Commissioner Parker. seconded bv Mayor Vandere:rift. moved to certify the election results
for Commissioner. District 2 as noted. Motion carried 3-0.
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting adjourned at 12:40 p.m.
Attest:
APPROVED
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Marian Green, Deputy City Clerk
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S. Scott Vandergrift, Mayor
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