BAY MINETTE, Ala. — The Baldwin County Republican Party executive committee will meet at 3 p.m. today at Robertsdale City Hall to review election options for school board District 5 candidates after mistakes by poll workers prevented voters from casting correct ballots Tuesday at two precincts.

A total of 142 voters cast Republican ballots at the Foley Civic Center and Magnolia Springs Wesleyan Church precincts, but did not receive correct ballots, according to Baldwin County Probate Judge Adrian Johns.

Angie Swiger defeated incumbent Margaret Long by a 65-vote margin.

The 142 votes could have made a difference in the outcome.

Republican Party chairman Don McGriff said Friday morning the committee will review three options: Conduct elections district wide or only for the two precincts, or take no action.

Johns said poll workers did not unseal and distribute that ballot style in either of the two split precincts.

“There are seven split precincts with the school board race and there is always the possibility of human error in split precincts,” Johns said. “We stress that in training sessions.”

“Johns said he was reviewing election results early Wednesday when Long called to question zero balloting results in that race in the two precincts. Swiger also called and the three discussed options in a conference call.

“We talked for a while and they had good questions,” Johns said. “Both candidates understood what had happened and decided to call the Republican Party chairman to see what the party would do.”

Johns said he was organizing staffers to analyze individual precinct results as they arrive on the night of future elections.

About 16,000 of the county’s 104,000 registered voters Tuesday gave the nod to Fairhope appraiser Teddy Faust for the Baldwin County Revenue Commissioner post and incumbent Randy McKinney for the state Board of Education District 1 seat.

Baldwin County voters also soundly rejected a five-year, 4-mill, local amendment property tax increase to fund a host of transportation improvements throughout the county.

But voters approved a senior property tax appraisal amendment which freezes ad valorem taxes for specified seniors.

Baldwin County Commission chairman Frank Burt said he was “not surprised” by the rejection of the road improvement amendment and that members of the Baldwin County Legislative Delegation wanted to pull the item for a vote next year.

“We didn’t want to wait,” Burt said. “We needed to know if we won’t have funding so we can make adjustments.

“The timing was bad. This is a terrible time financially for everyone with gas and grocery prices going up tremendously.

“We will keep going. We just can’t do those projects.”

Burt said improvement projects for County roads 13 and 83 are funded and both should be completed within three years.

“The highway department has plenty of work and resurfacing projects,” Burt said.

Faust defeated Ron Scott in the revenue commissioner race by a 7,173-6,233 margin. McKinney garnered 11,155 votes to Mobilian Paul Christopher’s 2,665 votes to win the board of education slot in final, but unofficial primary returns.

“It’s been a good campaign, and we both burned ourselves out” Faust said Tuesday, referring to himself and his opponent. He said he and Scott have been “very cordial” during the campaign.

Scott said he and his opponent ran “a good, clean race” and have run into each other “15 or 20 times” on the campaign trail.

Scott said neither of them “spent a ton of money” on their respective campaigns, but enough to “get their names out there.”

For complete election results, visit probate.co.baldwin.al.us.