Reston Board of Directors Decided by 2 Votes – Recount Please!
The results are in for the Reston Board of Directors!
In the Northpoint Race, Peter Greenberg, lost to Mike Collins by just 2 votes! I asked Mr. Greenberg if there was any kind of re-count process. Apparently there were approximately 25 online votes that didn’t get processed due to a computer glitch, and these people were notified by mail that their vote wasn’t counted. He is unsure how many of those people had a chance to re-vote. There may have been other counting issues, but Mr. Greenberg has been told that if he would like a re-count he will need to pay for it himself.
All of the Save Brown’s Chapel slate was elected, other than Mr. Greenberg, and 2 votes seem like a pretty slim margin for error, especially when you already have acknowledged issues with some of the votes.
I wasn’t able to find any “official process” in the by-laws for this. Does anyone know if this kind of issue has come up in the past, and if so how it was handled?
It would seem that an official re-count should be performed and not at the expense of the candidate. With all the money the RA board has thrown around on architectural plans for projects that may or may not move forward, surely they can afford to have a re-counting of the 2,425 votes that they have reported as being cast in the election of the North Point Director.
I am sure both candidates would make the time to be available to oversee the process and help with the counting.
The results are in for the Reston Board of Directors!
In the Northpoint Race, Peter Greenberg, lost to Mike Collins by just 2 votes! I asked Mr. Greenberg if there was any kind of re-count process. Apparently there were approximately 25 online votes that didn’t get processed due to a computer glitch, and these people were notified by mail that their vote wasn’t counted. He is unsure how many of those people had a chance to re-vote. There may have been other counting issues, but Mr. Greenberg has been told that if he would like a re-vote he will need to pay for it himself.
All of the Save Brown’s Chapel slate was elected, other than Mr. Greenberg, and 2 votes seem like a pretty slim margin for error, especially when you already have acknowledged issues with some of the votes.
I wasn’t able to find any “official process” in the by-laws for this. Does anyone know if this kind of issue has come up in the past, and if so how it was handled?
It would seem that an official re-count should be performed and not at the expense of the candidate. With all the money the RA board has thrown around on architectural plans for projects that may or may not move forward, surely they can afford to have a re-counting of the 2,425 votes that they have reported as being cast in the election of the North Point Director.
I am sure both candidates would make the time to be available to oversee the process and help with the counting.