Just months after Norfolk election officials attempted to force her out, a Norfolk Electoral Board member said she believed the provisional ballot process was flawed.

Norfolk Electoral Board vice chair Marianne McKay voted against both counting 1,420 provisional ballots and not counting 108 other provisional ballots in two votes during a canvassing meeting Friday.

Both measures ultimately passed 2-1, with chair Atoy Carrington and member Michael Ziegenfuss voting to approve the counts.

McKay, a Republican member of the board, voted against both measures as part of a belief she should be able to personally inspect both the provisional ballot rolls and the ballots themselves by hand. The time-consuming process would likely mean Norfolk could not certify its election results in time to

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