#Early vote totals registration#
#Early vote totals code#

Daa'iyah Salaam received 279 votes in the race. Fletcher, whose 297 votes placed her in second place behind Vilnis Gaines, who finished with 435 votes. In Ward III there will be a runoff election on Nov. Former commission member Bobby Coleman finished in second place with 260 votes, and Adam Inyang collected 158 votes. In the Ward II race, Jalen Johnson won in his bid to replace incumbent Commissioner Matt Fuller, who did not seek re-election, garnering 903 votes, or 53.71 percent of the votes cast. Jenkins finished with 1,154 votes and Burley received 56 votes.

In the election, incumbent Ward V Commissioner Langstaff was re-elected to another four-year term, earning 2,038 votes, or 56.62 percent of ballots cast. 'I talked to a guy yesterday' at the Secretary of State's office, and I am cooperating '100 percent,' with the investigation, he said. I don't know her at all.'įlorence said he found out that sharing the information was illegal when he received a call from a candidate in the Ward II race. On Wednesday, Florence said he received the vote tallies on his phone from a person he does not know.

#Early vote totals code#

Georgia's legal code states that it is unlawful to disclose to another person or receive any results of vote tabulation of absentee ballots prior to the close of polls. In a case sheet provided, the office identifies the nature of the investigation as 'Elections-Tabulation/Reporting Problems.' If the investigation indicates that a violation occurred, the case could be presented to the State Election Board, which meets several times a year, to determine what, if any, action should be taken, up to referral to the district attorney for a criminal case. Jones said a television reporter who called the office reported seeing a tape of totals from City Commission races on Tuesday. 'That's all part of the investigation,' he said. She also said she could not say when early votes were counted for the election. Nickerson said she could not comment further on the investigation other than confirming that a report of the allegations about individuals having numbers from the early voting period was made to the Secretary of State. 'The Board of Elections doesn't have a website,' she said.

On Wednesday, Dougherty Elections Supervisor Ginger Nickerson disputed the assertion that votes were available on that website.

#Early vote totals registration#

'We had gotten word of it during the day yesterday (Tuesday), which allowed us to send an investigator to the site.'įlorence, who ran unsuccessfully last year for the Dougherty County School Board, told a reporter the results were available on the county's Board of Registration and Elections website. 'Yes, we are investigating,' said Walter Jones, communications manager for voter education in the Secretary of State's office. Those correspond with the totals for early voting in the race, which was won by Langstaff. The totals on the phone screen showed incumbent Commissioner Bob Langstaff with 271 votes, Colette Jenkins with 256 and RyShari Burley with 15. In one instance, Black Voters Matter representative Kenneth Florence showed the totals for the Ward V race to a Herald reporter at about 10:30 a.m.

The vote totals were spotted on Tuesday by at least two reporters who were covering the races for the Albany City Commission in Wards II, III and V. 3-ALBANY - The Georgia Secretary of State's office confirmed on Wednesday that it is investigating reports of early voting totals for three Albany municipal races being released prior to the close of Tuesday's election.