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Canvassing Board Completes Hand Recount of 3,399 Votes
Lybrand Unofficial Winner By 6 Votes
Story & photos by Dick Kauffman

 

October 13, 2003
Monday - 3:00 pm

updated... Results of the Election were certified by the Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly during the special meeting Monday evening and are now official. With certification of the results, Lybrand is now the official winner of one of two borough assembly seats by 6 votes.


Ketchikan, AK - The Canvassing Board for the Ketchikan Gateway Borough/City of Ketchikan Regular Election met this morning to recount the votes cast for Borough Assembly Candidates Barbara Bigelow and George Lybrand. Bigelow and Lybrand tied for an Assembly seat in last week's Municipal Election with both unofficially receiving 935 votes.


Canvassing Board photo..

Canvassing Board Working On Hand Recount
Left to right: Harriet Edwards, KGB Clerk;
Canvassing Board Members: Karen Miles, Joyce Hazlequist and Henry Keene...



 arrowUnofficial Recount Results (pdf) Published: Monday - October 13, 2003 - 3:00 pmarrow Unofficial Results (pdf) Published: Wednesday - October 08, 2003 - 1:27 pm
arrow Unofficial Results (pdf) Published: Tuesday - October 07, 2003 - 10:21 pm
arrow About the Candidates
Today's hand recount of 3,399 votes was completed by Canvassing Board Members Karen Miles, Joyce Hazlequist and Henry Keene in approximately three and one half hours. After completing today's hand recount - which the Canvassing Board was directed to do by the Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly in a special meeting held last Thursday - the Canvassing Board certified the recount results for the votes cast in the Municipal Election held on October 7th for KGB Assembly Candidates Lybrand and Bigelow as:

Barbara Bigelow 933

George Lybrand 939

In a special meeting scheduled for this evening at 5:30 pm in the City Council Chambers, the Borough Assembly will be presented the Canvass Board's report of the recount of votes for Assembly Candidates George Lybrand and Barbara Bigelow and the Assembly will consider certifying and declaring the results of the regular election held on October 7, 2003.

 

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Canvassing Board photo..

Canvassing Board Working On Hand Recount
Canvassing Board Members: Karen Miles, Joyce Hazlequist and Henry Keene...

 

 

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Hand recount sheet for Precinct Ketchikan No. 1

 

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Votes were sealed in envelopes and brought out one at a time to be counted. This is a photo of votes that were stacked after being counted...

 


 

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