After subtracting 100 votes from its total election tally yesterday, Walton was forced to rename its election's winners and losers:
Morley's total was originally announced as 165 votes, winning him one of the two available seats, but the actual number should have been 65, placing him last among the four candidates
At a budget meeting Wednesday, Morley resigned, and Snow announced that he would appoint Andrew Rutherford to the position.
Rutherford received 149 votes in the March 16 election, which placed him third. After the correction in the results, he finished in second place, winning the second seat.
Morley said resigning his position was "the right thing to do. It's just one of those things, but it's bittersweet. I guess in the long run, all's well that ends well, but we had a rocky road getting to that point.''
So the young upstarts have won the day in Walton. We're still scratching our heads. The original count was 209 + 165 + 149 + 105 = 628. That's 70 more 558, which is 2 (number of trustee slots open) x 279 (number of people who voted in the election). Now the total number of votes is 528? Did 30 people only vote for one candidate, or is the math awry again? Can we get the U.N. up in here?
