PINE BLUFF — In its final official action of the Nov. 3 general election, Jefferson County’s Election Commission signed a letter of certification of the results of the general, municipal, and the nonpartisan judicial elections, and the school elections for the Dollarway, Pine Bluff, and Watson Chapel districts.
The certification letter, along with a copy of the official election results, were directed to be forwarded to the county clerk’s office.
“We actually certified the election on Nov. 14 but because we weren’t able to get the results uploaded into the [election reporting manager] because we had so many ballots that had to be entered manually,” said Mike Adam, chairman of the commission. “So the election was certified but this provides the county clerk with the official certification for her records and that ties everything together.”
Adam said the process of hand counting the ballots that wouldn’t feed through the tabulator took well into the night Nov. 13.