Freestone County Elections Administrator, Renee McBay discussed the reasons for the changing voting results from the May 2 election.
“Voters within the City of Streetman and Fairfield ISD, and a combination of Streetman voters who live within the boundaries of Fairfield ISD, were originally given paper ballots to cast their votes due to a clerical error,” McBay said.
Commissioners at large were incorrectly listed as Commissioner for Place One and Place Two.
McBay said her office had printed a total of 600 paper ballots, 200 in each of three ballot styles.
Further confusion resulted on election night after unofficial results were incorrectly posted on the Freestone County website for a short time. Those results did not correctly note the ballots which were legally cast and later counted by the Freestone County Ballot Board.
The final results were reported to and accepted by the Texas Secretary of State’s Office said McBay,
Barbara Polk received 50 votes and recited the oath to become the next Mayor of Streetman Monday, while Belinda Owen and Subrenna Turner were also officially sworn into the Office of Commissioner at large, of the City of Streetman, Monday after receiving 38 and 31 votes respectively.
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