Draper City Council Meeting - August 26, 2025: Certification of Primary Municipal Election Results
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Draper City Council Meeting – August 26, 2025
The Draper City Council met on August 26, 2025, to consider a single action item: Resolution #25-42 certifying the official canvass of the primary municipal election held August 12, 2025. The meeting was brief, with a unanimous vote to certify the results.
Discussion Items
- The council considered Resolution #25-42, presented by City Recorder Nicole Smedley. The resolution certified the results of the August 12, 2025 primary election. The two candidates advancing to the general election for the at-large city council seat (two-year term) are Catherine Dahlin with 2,407 votes (47.63%) and Brad Byington with 1,622 votes (32.09%).
- Nicole Smedley also reported on challenged ballots: out of 108 ballots with issues (signature discrepancies, including 5 unsigned envelopes), 66 were cured and 42 could not be cured. She noted that the legislature recently changed the process for curing such ballots.
Key Outcomes
- A motion to adopt Resolution #25-42 was made and seconded. The council voted unanimously (4-0) to approve the resolution, certifying the official canvass of the primary municipal election. Council member Lowry was absent.
- The meeting was then adjourned.
Meeting Transcript
All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our city council meeting. Sorry we got to start a little bit late. I'd like to call the meeting to order. Um I don't have anybody listed to do the pledge, so I'll leave us in it. Do we have someone? Go ahead. Okay. Thank you, Jake. All right. That takes us to item number three. It's a very short agenda. It could be a record meeting in the history of Draper City Council meetings. Item three is uh an item for council consideration three A. It's an action item. It's resolution twenty-five forty-two. It's a resolution of Draper City Council certifying the official canvas of the primary municipal election held August the twelfth, twenty twenty-five. We'll have our city recorder Nicole Smedley. Go ahead, Nicole. All right, thank you. Before you are the final unofficial results of the municipal primary election held August 12th, 2025. The results will become official upon your motion today and all of the board members' signature upon the certified results. The two candidates moving forward to the general election ballot for our at-large city council seat, a two-year term will be Catherine Dahlin with 2,407 votes at 47.63%, and Brad Byington with 1,622 votes at 32.09%. From the county for the election. So the challenged and unconcounted ballot statistics. Uh ballots, they had some signature discrepancies, five unsigned envelopes, and when that happens, they do reach out to the people in every way that they can to cure those ballots. So out of 108 ballots that were challenged that have some issues, 42 were not able to be cured, so 66 were. Yes, that's the that's true. But the legislature changed that last set session to make it so if you weren't paying attention to the legislature, I can't imagine not everyone is that you would have missed that, but some probably did. So any other questions from anyone else? I see we have two candidates, three candidates here. Thank you for coming. Thank you for participating as well in the process. So appreciate your interest in the community and hope to see you guys in other fashions and more involved as with the in our community. All right, is there a is there a motion? Mr. Mayor, I move we adopt resolution twenty-five forty-two certifying the official canvas of the primary municipal election held August twelfth, twenty twenty-five. Second by Miss Lowry. Any further discussion? All right, Mr. Green, how do you vote? Yes. Miss Lowry. Yes. Ms. Vodry. Yes. Ms. Johnson? Yes. That's a unanimous vote of four to zero.
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