Narvaiz Claims Victory After Recount

11/17/2008

By: Brad Rollins
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Mayor Susan Narvaiz was returned to a third term after a marathon recount delayed her scheduled swearing in but did not change the final vote tally. She is expected to take the office’s oath within the hour.

Susan NarvaizAt 7:30 p.m., Hays County elections officials announced that Narvaiz won 6,451 votes, 50.08 percent, to Newman’s 3,868, 30.03 percent, while Texas State University student Dan McCarthy took 2,563 votes, 19.9 percent. Newman requested the recount this week because of the nine votes that stood between him and the opportunity to take on Narvaiz in a runoff election.

The recount started at 10 a.m. this morning and stretched through the morning in afternoon. At 5 p.m., as planned, city council member Chris Jones was sworn to a second term and former planning and zoning chair Fred Terry to his first. But the council recessed the meeting to await the recount’s outcome, affording rare suspense to a ceremony typically that is usually little more than formality.