Kyle Ward has managed to retain his narrow hold over the third available seat on the Alamance-Burlington school board now that the local board of elections has posted the final results from last Tuesday’s vote.
This certified count, which received the blessing of Alamance County’s board of elections on Friday, puts Ward just 10 votes ahead of Brandy Whittaker, who finished fourth in this year’s seven-way race for the three seats on the school board. Whittaker had previously found herself within 3 votes of Ward’s third-place finish only to fall further behind due to some eleventh-hour adjustments to the vote count on Friday.
The final vote tally also puts Republican Ryan Moffitt 286 votes behind Democrat Ian Baltutis in the race for the legislative seat that represents the 63rd district in North Carolina’s state house.
In both of these instances, the trailing candidate has the right to call for a recount under state law, which permits this option whenever the margin of difference in a non-statewide race is less than 1 percent of all the votes cast in that contest. Any candidate who wishes to request a recount must do so in writing before 5:00 p.m. on Monday, November 16.
The vote totals subject to a potential recount have already been double-checked by the county’s bipartisan board of elections, which met for over two hours on Friday to confirm the election’s results…