Officials in three different counties should certify results this week for the Sept. 26 special elections in House Districts 16 and 55.
Fayette, Tuscaloosa and Jefferson plan to finalize the provisional ballots from the election results on Tuesday at noon and certify the results on Friday at the same time.
Officials in the three counties said that the certified results are not expected to change much from the unofficial results, if at all.
“There may have been a few provisionals, but not enough to change the elections,” said Samantha Howard, clerk for the Fayette County Circuit Court.
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Alabama House District 16, 55 primaries headed to October runoffs
Ruth Childres from the Tuscaloosa Probate Judge’s office, said that their results would be certified in the afternoon, most likely around noon.
Jefferson County Board of Registrars Chair Barry Stephenson said that results become final Tuesday with the provisional ballots, seven days after the election, and will become certified on Friday at noon, 10 days after the election.
“The vote will become official after the provisional votes are counted or not counted, so that’s at noon tomorrow. That’s, by law, seven days after the election, which is tomorrow,” Stephenson said. “Then 10 days at noon, everything will be certified.”
The two Alabama House primaries will go to Oct. 24 runoffs after candidates in either race failed to get a majority of the votes.
In the GOP contest in House District 16 in Fayette, Tuscaloosa and Jefferson counties, Fayette County Commissioner Brad Cox had 1,216 votes (32.96%) in unofficial returns. Attorney Bryan Brinyark had 1,201 votes (32.56%).
In House District 55 in Birmingham and Fairfield, Travis Hendrix, a police sergeant, had 670 votes (27.91%) in the unofficial returns, while just 30 votes separated Sylvia Swayne, a quality assurance manager (515 votes, 21.45%) from Fairfield City Councilwoman Phyllis E. Oden-Jones (485 votes, 20.2%).
Stephenson said Hendrix and Swayne will advance to the runoff.
