The Greenbelt City Council and the city’s Board of Elections met on January 3 to discuss how the November 7 city election went and to consider possible future changes. Chair Pamela Gregory and members Jean Cook, Patricia Evans, Steven Gilbert and Judy Ott were present.
Mayor Emmett Jordan thanked the board for their work in a year with more than the average number of candidates (13), new residences and voters in Greenbelt West and an increased level of voter registration. Ott took the lead in expressing the board’s thanks to City Clerk Bonita Anderson who, as Ott said, had to hit the ground running when she started to work for the city about three months ahead of the upcoming election.
Asked by Jordan if there were any problems, Gregory cited ongoing issues with the return of voter registration information from the Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA), including long delays in conveying new applications to the Prince George’s County Board of Elections. It was suggested that raising this issue with the county might be appropriate.
Read more of this story in the January 18 News Review.