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Home My WebLink About03101998Minutes of the City of Sebastian Canvassing Board 3/10/98 General Election Tuesday, March 10, 1998 - 6:00 p.m. lst Floor Conference Room Indian River County Administrarion Building 1840 25th Street Vero Beach, FL present: City of Sebastian Canvassing Board Members: Chairperson and City Clerk, Kathryn O'Halloran; Councilmember Louise Cartwright; and Deputy City Clerk, Sally Maio. City Attorney, Valerie Settles was also present. Other Officials Present: Indian River County: Supervisor of Elections, Kay Clem; County Attorney, Charles Vitunac; Chief Deputy Supervisor of Elections, Diana Wright; and Absentee Ballot Coordinator, Marge Trumble City of Vero Beach Canvassing Board Members: City Attorney, Robert Sechen; City Manager, Rex Taylor; and City Clerk, Tammy Vock City of Fellsmere Canvassing Board: City Attorney, Warren Dill; Councilmember Bob Baker; and Ciry Clerk, Deborah Krages The Pledge of Allegiance was recited. Chairperson O'Halloran called the Sebastian Canvassing Board meeting to order at 6:02 p.m. Each Canvassing Board called its roll. Chairperson Kathryn O'Halloran called for a motion to approve the March 4, 1998 Canvassing Board minutes. MOTION by Cartwright/Maio I so move. VOICE VOTE on the motion carried 3-0. Supervisor of Elections staff member, Marge Trumble submitted a list of 45 absentee ballots and one questionable sealed absentee ballot to the Sebastian Canvassing Board for determination, along with a copy of the voter registration form for Harold Brauer, 489 Memorial Avenue, Sebastian. The signature on the ballot envelope and the signature on the voter registration form were completely different. The Canvassing Board unanimously rejected the ballot based on Absentee Ballot Guideline #2 (see guidelines approved by all Canvassing Boards at the3/4/98 meeting attached). The rejected ballot will remain on file in the office of the Supervisor of Elections. The list of absentee ballots minus the rejected ballot was 44. Absentee ballot count and review was completed at 6:40 p.m. Minutes of the City of Sebastian Canvassing Board Tuesday, March 10, 1998 - 6:00 p.m. Page Two Canvassing Board members moved to the Supervisor of Elections office for equipment tests. The Sebastian Canvassing Boazd certified to a Logic and Accuracy test and absentee ballot count which came out to 44. At the completion of this first set of tests, Ms. Maio remained in the counting room during all ballot counts, and Chairperson O'Halloran and Ms. Cartwright moved to the lst floor conference room to oversee inspection and receiving teams. One ballot was returned by poll workers from precinct 16 in a separate envelope, indicating it needed duplicating. Ms. O'Halloran and Ms. Cartwright were called back to the counting room to make a determination on the ballot. The ballot was opened and determined to be bent. A duplicate ballot was made in accordance with proper procedures and counted with ballots for precinct 16. The bent ballot was marked VOID and filed with the Supervisor of Elections staff. Following the completion of ballot counting for all precincts, the Sebastian Canvassing Board certified to the fmal results and Logic and Accuracy test. The Certicate of Canvassing Board for the Ciry of Sebastian is attached. MOTION by O'Halloran/Cartwright I move to accept the results and adjourn at 9:04 p.m. VOICE VOTE on the motion carried 3-0. City of Sebastian Canvassing Board ` � �� Kathryn . O'Halloran, City Clerk Chairperson � J 1 1♦d p t�i�l�� Lo 'se Cartwright Councilmember `�l < � � h L Sally A.1trI 'o Deputy City Clerk 2 , � - � � � �� Supervisor of Eiections Indian River County, Florida I ABSENTEE CANVASSING BOARD GUIDELINES 1. No Voter Signature REJECT 2 Voter Signature does not match REJECT 3. No �tness „ REJECT -i� 1l ' 4. No Witness Address�/11Q-r�i� � �2 ,��,��.e�P� REJECT U �� 5. Witnessed by Candidate REJECT 6. Husband and wife signed each others certificates ACCEPT if both ballots aze returned 7. Ballot is torn, taped, folded DUPLICATE if intent can be determined � 8. Write-ins DUPLICATE if valid write-in 9. No ballot in secrecy envelope REJECTED --subtract from ballots cast 10. More than one ballot in secrecy envelope ACCEPTED if two signatures on certificate 11. Bailot booklet is marked instead of Regular ballot DUPLICATE if intent can be determined 12. Advance Ballot(original not returned} DUPLICATE 13. Wrong ballot retumed for this election REJECT 14. Returned more than one ballot for same Election ACCEPT first ballot received 2/24/98 1840 25th Street, Suite N-109 � Vero Beach, FL 32960-3396 �(561) 567-8187 � FAX (561) 770-5367 ► � s CERTIFICATE OF CANVASSING BOARD CITY OF SEBASTIAN INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA We, the undersigned, members of the duly constituted Board of Canvassers for the City of Sebastian, Florida, do hereby certify that we met in the office of the Supervisor of Elections on the 10th Day of March, A.D., 1998, and proceeded to publicty canvass the votes given for the offices herein specified at the General Election held on the 10th Day of March, A.D., 1998, as shown by the returns on file in the office of the Supervisor of Elections. We do hereby certify from said returns as follows: CITY OF SEBASTIAN Q �(� .7', 7�9J� � For City Council Member, the whole number of votes cast was —y�of which number LOUISE "K" KAUTENBURG CARL (CHIP) LIBERTINO CHUCK NEUBERGER MARTHA S. WININGER (VOTE FOR TWO) received � �� VOTES received � � VOTES received �� 3� � VOTES received �� 2�� VOTES , D /-�� Canvassin Board Member `` �;��` < Canvassing' ard Mem er c��' �° Can assing Board Member