Recount of Carnegie Election Results Fuels Distrust

The membership voted at a Special Meeting at Carnegie Center this evening to hold a recount of the June 5th election results for the Board of Directors.

Board President, M. Matthew, announced that three tellers chosen by him would perform the recount. He chose two of the same people to count the ballots this time as had counted them at the election:

Ethel Whitty, Carnegie Director
Rolph Auer, Secretary of the Board

Carnegie member James Arkinstall said, "If you wanted to prove you were acting in good faith, you wouldn't get the same people to count them [the ballots]." 

Arkinstall also insisted that a teller is "supposed to be somebody from amongst us...the audience."  But the third teller chosen by Matthew was Craig, a current Board member. 

An hour later, Craig announced that the original election results had been "confirmed".

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