O-82-39 MIAMI SHORES VILLAGE ORDINAECE NO.
AN ORDINANCE CALLING A RUNT-OFF ELECTION' TO DETERMINE
THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES TO FILL THE TWO VACANCIES
ON MIAMI SHORES VILLAGE COUNCIL BECAUSE OF THE FAILURE
OF ANY CANDIDATE OR CANDIDATES TO RECEIVE A MAJORITY
VOTE OF THE QUALIFIED ELECTORS PARTICIPATING AND VOTING
IN THE REGULAR ELECTION TO FILL SAID VACANCIES HELD BY
SAID VILLAGE ON JUNE 20, 1939 AND MAKING ALL NECESSARY
PROVISIONS FOR SAID RUN-OFF ELECTION, INCLUDING CASTING
OF ABSENTEE BALLOTS THEREIN.
WHEREAS, at the regular election held in Miami Shores Village
on June 20, 1939, to name the successors to Honorable Hugh H. Gordon,Jr.,
and Honorable John M. Carlisle, as members of Miami Shores Village
Council, and
WHEREAS, said election was regularly and duly held in accordance
with the laws and ordinances of the Village, and' of the State of
Florida, and
WHEREAS, at said election 332 qualified electors of said Village
voted therein, and
WHEREAS, the election judges have filed their report of the
result of said election, and
WHEREAS, the Council has duly and regularly canvassed the results
of said election, and as a result of such canvass has ratified,
approved and certified the result of said election as made by said
election judges, and
WHEREAS, the result of .said election discloses the following
number of votes cast as hereinafter shown opposite the names of the
respective candidates as follows:
John G. Thompson - 1139
W. Meade Stdckdell - 104
Stanley Milledge - 98
Hugh H. Gordon, Jr. - 98
Walter G. Earnest - 89
Carl Anderson - 59
Troy Hewitt - 44
and
WHEREAS, neither of said candidates named received a majority
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from said Village and who will not return' to said Village in time to
cast an absentee ballot as hereinabove provided in person and who, grill
be absent from said Village on election_ day, the ,Clerk of said Village
shall mail to said electors so described, to their latest available
address, and if such address can not be ascertained by the Clerk by the
use of reasonable diligen6e, then and in that event the said Clerk
shall mail to the address of said electors at their residence address
in Miami Shores Village with notation on the outside of said letter
"Please forward", the ballot of said election in the plain unmarked
and unwritten envel-o-pe, together with the larger envelope in which
said smaller envelope shall be placed by said elector and request said
elector to sign and execute before a Notary Public the affidavit or
oath placed on the back of said large envelope, said oath being in the
words and figures as above set out in Section 5 hereof; that said elector
shall then mail said envelope containing said ballot as herein provided
to the Clerk of the Village, and the same must be received by the Village
Clerk on or before said election day and said ballot shall be placed in
the ballot box if received before ,eight P. M. on said election day
according to the provi slons herein set forth in Section 5 hereof. The
Clerk of the Village is hereby directed to execute proof of complying
with the provisions hereof relating to the mailing of said ballots to
said absentee voters and file same in the records of the Village.
SECTION 7. That Mrs. John M.. Ritter and Paul Doren be, and
they are hereby appointed as election judges to act with the Village
Clerk in accordance with the laws and ordinances of the Village govern-
ing elections therein.
SECTION e. All other laws governing elections in Miami Shores
Village be, and the same are hereby specifically made applicable to said
run-off election hereby called.
UmiMOUSLY PASSED AND ADOPTED THIS day of June,
A. D. 1939.
ATTEST:
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lag Manager Clerk.