Jerry Logan might not have gained enough votes to take a seat on Alabama One's board of directors, but he still drew thousands of votes from the troubled credit union's members, according to election results.
The former board member of the scandal-ridden cooperative gathered enough signatures to get on the ballot for the March election, but failed to gather enough votes to win.
A March 27 letter from Election Systems & Software, the firm Alabama One hired to conduct its board election, to Alabama One Board Chairman Edwin Harrell reported 5,163 ballots were cast in the election and that the credit union invalidated 233 ballots.
Incumbent board members Larry Sexton (3,931), Edwin Harrell (3,791) and Richard Powell (3,791) collected the most votes, but Logan still garnered 2,698.
However, there was a discrepancy between the numbers of invalid ballots listed in one part of the letter (233) and in a separate breakout of invalid ballots (352).
According to the list, ESS invalidated 155 ballots for an incomplete voter identification form; 60 were invalidated for having voted for too many candidates; five were invalidated for having no candidates marked at all; 10 had no ballot enclosed in the envelope and 77 had two ballots but only one voter identification form.
Greg Woodyard, regional sales manager for ESS, declined to clarify what constituted an incomplete voter identification form, but took the question for the credit union to answer later.
"We use their criteria, so it's more appropriate for them to answer that question," Woodyard said.
The cooperative has previously failed to answer questions about election results.
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