Toni Kelly-Richardson

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  "We do need county help," said Aurora City Administrator Toni Kelly-Richardson.

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  "We've been working for two years to get this finalized," said Toni Kelly-Richardson, city administrator, who grew up across the street from the DeCordovas.

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  The Aurora City Council will decide on Thursday if it wants to go through with such an agreement, including how much water the city is interested in paying for, said Aurora City Administrator Toni Kelly-Richardson.
  
  "Right now we are just trying to get water to provide to one household at a new construction site," she added.

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  "It is not economically feasible for us to open our own shelter," said Toni Kelly-Richardson, city administrator for the city of Aurora.

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  "It's being remodeled as we speak," said city administrator Toni Kelly-Richardson on Thursday.
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  "It will be used for planning and economic development," Kelly-Richardson said.

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  "It is not economically feasible for us to open our own shelter," said Toni Kelly-Richardson, city administrator for the city of Aurora.
  
  Since the shutdown of the Wise County Animal Shelter, the city of Aurora has received about 12 calls for loose dogs.
  
  "We've had to turn away everyone," Kelly-Richardson said."I tell them we no longer have animal service."
  
  She said the majority of the animals dumped off in Aurora are pit bulls, probably coming from the Metroplex.
  
  "It could be very hazardous," she said.

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  Meanwhile, more details have become available from city Administrator Toni Kelly-Richardson regarding the election.Here are the details as provided by Kelly-Richardson:
  
  The original ballots were programmed on the Diebold electronic voting machines with all three wards and the mayor.The touch screen on the first election machine stopped working during early voting on Thursday, May 3.
  
  The first voter on Friday morning, May 4, could not cast her vote, so the city immediately called Diebold and told them about the problem.
  
  Kelly-Richardson also told the company that the ballots were not casting properly - the wards should be separated so that a resident could cast a vote only for his or her ward (not all three wards) and the mayor's race.
  
  A Diebold programmer came and pulled the early voting machine, replacing it with the election day machine.The programmer told Kelly-Richardson that there was a "corrupt program file" on the early voting machine and it was taken out of commission.A replacement machine was to be sent to the city by Diebold.
  
  When the new machine arrived, Kelly-Richardson said it was tested and functional.
  
  On election day - May 12 - the machine was set up and at 8 a.m. Kelly-Richardson received a phone call saying that the machine would not accept the voter card.
  
  She went to city hall to test the card reader which she said would not click and hold the card.
  
  "I called the election help desk.They said pull up the early voting machine.So I turned to the machine we just finished early voting on, broke the seal, unlocked the memory card and sealed it in a secure envelope and placed it in the office cabinet," Kelly-Richardson said.
  
  She said she pulled the election day memory card from the new machine and placed it in the early voting machine, then sealed and locked everything.
  
  After the election, Kelly-Richardson returned to city hall where votes were being tallied.She unsealed the early voting card which was supposed to contain 38 votes, but it showed zero.
  
  She said she called both the Secretary of State and Diebold to notify them of the problem.
  
  On Monday, May 14, a representative with the Secretary of State's office called Kelly-Richardson and told her that Diebold should not remove the voting machines but should do all testing at the office.
  
  That night a fire at the city hall left two machines melted in the cases, but the machine with the ballot dilemma only received smoke and water damage.
  
  Tuesday morning a Diebold representative hooked up the machine at MD Resort but nothing pulled up.Kelly-Richardson said she called the Secretary of State's office to inform them of the situation and the machines were released to Diebold.
  
  The machines were taken apart and everything was washed with alcohol and the components were left to dry, she said.
  
  The early voting memory card had been left in Aurora, so Kelly-Richardson mailed it to the company.
  
  On Thursday, May 17, she received an unofficial call saying the ballots had been located and on Monday an official tally was delivered.

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  Thirty-eight ballots from the election were uncounted after becoming "trapped" on a Diebold Election Systems voting machine that was used during early voting, said city Administrator Toni Kelly-Richardson.
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  "They said there was a programming glitch in the machine," Kelly-Richardson said.
  
  Last week, Kelly-Richardson received a phone call from Diebold saying the ballots had been recovered from the machine.She received a verbal confirmation Friday night and a hard copy of the results were sent by overnight mail.She received them Monday.
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  The canvass was to be held Tuesday, May 22, Kelly-Richardson said.
  
  There was some additional confusion from the election as well.
  
  Preliminary results from the election showed there were more ballots cast in the race for mayor than what was ultimately reported from the official election returns.
  
  Kelly-Richardson said this happened because election judges had counted both the summary and the tally for each race, doubling the preliminary results.

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  "I have information that they were able to find the tallies, so they're trying to now recreate those ballots," city Administrator Toni Kelly-Richardson said Friday.
  
  The missing votes have been found and are currently being printed and will be given to the city on Monday for a final tally.
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  Kelly-Richardson said the Secretary of State's office is handling the complaint.
  
  "Everything right down to the last ‘T' and the last ‘I' being dotted is handled by the Secretary of State," she said."I heard that there was a lady running around town telling people to revote after the ballots were trapped, and then there was the report that I was doing it - going around telling people to revote."
  
  She said she never told anyone to revote, nor did anyone do so.

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  Aurora City Administrator Toni Kelly-Richardson said the building had hosted a cemetery association meeting from 7 to 8 p.m., and she had been at the building due to the presence of electronic voting machines used in Saturday's election.The machines were still in the building due to a computer error discovered Saturday (see related story in this issue).
  
  Kelly-Richardson said she left the building around 8:15 and did not notice anything unusual.
  
  "It was a very small time frame," between the time she left and when the fire was discovered, she said.
  
  Kelly-Richardson said the fire apparently began from a short with a copier machine located in the center of the building.
  
  She said the municipal court records were salvaged - meaning anyone who owes fines to the city still must pay them.Other records were also salvaged, primarily because they are being backed up on computer at an off-site location, she said.
  
  Among the items that were lost were the copier machine, city maps and an Aurora alien movie poster.
  
  "Everything else is covered in soot," she said.
  
  The interior of the building also sustained heavy heat and smoke damage.No one was injured.
  
  Kelly-Richardson said an emergency meeting was to be called late Tuesday to determine a temporary location for city hall.
  
  The single-story brick structure has been the home of city hall since 1965.

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