POMEROY — The Meigs County Board of Elections will conduct an automatic recount of votes cast in Columbia Township in order to determine which of two men was elected township trustee there.
Only one vote separates Marco Jeffers and Gary A. Spencer, 172 to 171. Don Cheadle has been declared a winner of one of two seats up for election. He received 174 votes after the board of elections conducted its official count of ballots earlier this week.
The board will conduct an automatic recount of ballots at 8:30 a.m. on Monday for that race. State law requires a recount when the difference in votes cast is less than half of one percent. Only the Columbia Township ballots are involved in the recount.
Official results
Official results of the Nov. 3 general election include 64 provisional ballots cast on Election Day and one absentee ballot received before the state deadline that was not counted in the unofficial count of Election Day.
Meigs County voters cast 6,765 ballots in the election — 43 percent of the registered voters.
Middleport Village Council (4): Mary Rae Moore, 270, Sandra F. Brown, 264, H. Craig Wehrung, 258, Martha Jean Craig, 237.
Pomeroy Village Council (4): Jackie R. Welker, 202, Jim Sisson, 203, Victor C. Young III, 192, George F. Stewart, Jr., 185, William A. Barnhart, 116, Joseph Barnhart, 96.
Racine Village Council (4): No candidates. Racine Board of Public Affairs (1): No candidates. Rutland Village Council (4): No candidates.
Syracuse Village Council (4): Joy L. Bentley, 172, Michael S. Jacks, 164, Michael R. VanMeter, 127, J.P. Varian, 109, Tim Willis, 69, Katelyn C. Roberts, 66. Syracuse Board of Public Affairs (2): Gordon Winebrenner, 204, Floyd A. Graham, 114.
Bedford Trustee (2): Jack R. Welker, 230, Roger A. Ziegler, 144, Matt McGrath, 120, Brad Knotts, 104. Chester Trustee (2): Alan Holter, 369, Blair Windon, 353, Larry E. Life, 327. Columbia Trustee (2): Don Cheadle, 174, Marco Jeffers, 172, Gary E. Spencer, 171, Danny Demko, 96, Thomas A. Smith II, 70.
Lebanon Trustee (2): Garry Smith, 116, Donald R. Dailey, 105. Letart Trustee (2): Bob Morris, 164, Dave Graham, 157, Michael Roush, 97, Rusty Tucker, 40, Keith White, 80. Olive Trustee (2): Timothy S. Epling, 322, Paul Curtis, 255, Jackie L. Westfall, 157, William R. Osborne, 147, Garry L. Bowman, Jr., 79. Olive Fiscal Officer: Sari E. Putman-Suttle, 198, Kaleen Sue Hayman, 194, Mandy Bush, 139.
Orange Trustee (2): Roger Allen Ritchie, 202, David L. Sheets, 129 (posthumous).
Rutland Trustee (2): Steven R. Lambert, 363, Charles D. Barrett, Jr., 353, Mike Roush, 212, Tim Caldwell, 123, Bruce Postlethwait, 42. Salem Trustee (2): Jack L. Ervin, 193, H. Dannie Lambert, 157, Delmas Goff, 129, Bill Cray, 50.
Salisbury Trustee (2): Bill E. Spaun, 758, Manning K. Roush, 570, Bill Morris, 451, Roger L. Mowery, 428. Scipio Trustee (2): Roger Cotterill, 210, Tammy Andrus, 178, Robert Butcher, 168, Robert Vance, 106. Scipio Fiscal Officer: Karen A. Ridenour, 294.
Sutton Trustee (2): Jerry L. Hayman, 508, Larry C. Smith, 475, Don P. Smith, 277. Sutton Fiscal Officer, Roger Hysell (write-in), 41. Governing Board, Athens-Meigs Educational Service Center (1): John Depoy, 2,743, Jeff Vogt, 1,523. Athens-Meigs ESC (Southern): Patricia Struble, 996.
Alexander Local Board of Education (3): Mike Chapman, 214, Fred Davis, 198, Gordon Brooks, 145. Meigs Local Board of Education (3): Ron Logan, 1,396, Ryan Mahr, 1,167, Scott Walton, 1,147, Anita Harmon-Hajivandi, 898, Todd B. Cullums, 751.
Eastern Local Board of Education (2): Dennis R. Eichinger, 945, Mark W. Hall, 814, Charles Weber, 689. Southern Local Board of Education (3): Paul B. Harris, 781, Johnny Bill Hoback, 557, Peggy S. Gibbs, 537, Kenneth R. McFann, 531, Richard B. Hill, 511.
State Issue 1/Compensation to Veterans: Yes, 4,744, No, 1,737. State Issue 2/Livestock Care: Yes, 4,043, No, 2,466. State Issue 3/Casinos: Yes, 3,112, No, 3,510.
The Meigs Local School District’s proposed 1.95 mills, five-year levy, for the construction of a multi-purpose center, was defeated, 1,478 for, and 1,871 against.
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