Special Seneca election is set, voting at alternate location

An announcement today for a special Seneca election, to be required to fill the remaining years of the city council term of the late Al Gaines.  Kristi Burr, county elections director, announces Seneca voters will be asked to go to the polls Tuesday, May 30.  A 10-day qualifying period to declare for the seat will start Friday, March 17.  On Special Election Day May 30, city voters will cast ballots at the Seneca Middle School.  The normal voting locations, the Shaver complex, according to Burr, will be unavailable that day due to a conflict.  Gaines, who retired from a public education career, is being remembered as the senior member of Seneca’s eight-seat governing authority and, as someone that Mayor Alexander and Mayor Pro tem O’Kelley, among others, looked up to.