Allegations of vote-buying have surfaced in the November Weldon mayor's race, according to documents obtained by rrspin.com.
A board of elections meeting planned today to allow James Mills to protest the results of the November 5 municipal election was postponed and will be held next Tuesday.
The Halifax County Board of Elections will give James Mills, who lost to incumbent Leonard Bunting in the Scotland Neck mayoral race, a chance to formally prove his opponent violated buffer zones regulations.
James Mills, who was defeated in the November 5 Scotland Neck mayoral race by incumbent Leonard Bunting, is protesting the outcome of that race.
Having solved a tie for the third seat on the Roanoke Rapids Graded Schools District Board of Education Friday, the Halifax County Board of Elections today certified the results of last Tuesday's municipal elections with no further changes.
It is still too early to determine what will happen if a count Friday of 48 provisional ballots will break a tie for the third seat on the Roanoke Rapids Graded School District Board of Education.
Wayne Smith won the Roanoke Rapids City Council seat Greg Lawson will vacate in a landslide, collecting 79.03 percent of the votes over his opponent, Gerald “Jerry” McDaniel.
The winner of the third seat on the Roanoke Rapids Graded School District Board of Education will probably not be clear until the canvassing of votes next Tuesday, according to the Halifax County Board of Elections.
Julia Meacham will return as mayor of Weldon, according to unofficial election returns.
Johnny Draper will face incumbent Julia Meacham in the Weldon mayoral race Tuesday.
