Carawan requests recount

Published 5:26 pm Friday, November 8, 2013

By Mike Voss

Belhaven Alderman Steve Carawan on Friday requested a recount of votes in the East End alderman race, which unofficial vote totals show he lost by four votes.

The recount takes place immediately following the Beaufort County Board of Elections’ canvass of votes cast in elections in the county’s seven municipalities this election cycle. That canvassing meeting begins at 11 a.m. Tuesday.

The recount is expected to begin at 11:30 a.m.

Carawan lost his re-election bid by four votes, according to unofficial vote totals reported by the Board of Elections on Election Day, to Tony Williams. Carawan and Williams each received 228 votes from voters who voted Election Day. In early voting, Williams received seven votes while Carawan collected four votes, giving Williams a four-vote lead.

State law allows for a recount if the difference between two candidates’ vote totals is 1 percent or less.

Prior to the canvassing meeting, the Board of Elections will conduct of hand-eye recount of the Washington mayoral votes in two of the city’s wards. State law requires the board to conduct a hand-eye recount of votes cast in a sample of polling places after each election.

The hand-eye recounts are scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

 

 

 

About Mike Voss

Mike Voss is the contributing editor at the Washington Daily News. He has a daughter and four grandchildren. Except for nearly six years he worked at the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., in the early to mid-1990s, he has been at the Daily News since April 1986.
Journalism awards:
• Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service, 1990.
• Society of Professional Journalists: Sigma Delta Chi Award, Bronze Medallion.
• Associated Press Managing Editors’ Public Service Award.
• Investigative Reporters & Editors’ Award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Public Service Award, 1989.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Investigative Reporting, 1990.
All those were for the articles he and Betty Gray wrote about the city’s contaminated water system in 1989-1990.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Investigative Reporting, 1991.
• North Carolina Press Association, Third Place, General News Reporting, 2005.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Lighter Columns, 2006.
Recently learned he will receive another award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Lighter Columns, 2010.
4. Lectured at or served on seminar panels at journalism schools at UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Maryland, Columbia University, Mary Washington University and Francis Marion University.

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