[TheLion]

"giving Sparks eight votes from ballots that were mistakenly burned by an election judge and three more from ballots marked for all the other candidates".

Boy, this is a new twist. Cheat and burn the evidence. You can bet the farm, this is exactly what transpired. The gall of these people is amazing. How the hell could ballots get burned to begin with?

[sweetliberty]

"How the hell could ballots get burned to begin with?"

It was probably a combination of the lighter fluid and the the box of lit matches that someone "accidentally" dropped in the box of ballots.