You really need to take the effort and check out the minutes for the "Meetings" held on the night of 22nd October, these can be found on the COG site, it appears that two meetings were held that night to resolve the issue of a deadlocked vote in the first meeting ... all was resolved after the councilors had an adjournment of 30 minutes ... after which a new meeting started and Cr Searle was elected Mayor.
So one must say that during the adjournment - some councilor(s) changed their vote, the vote still went down to second preferences again but with a new result, unfortunately it was not reported how the votes were cast ... one can only guess, but then again I should of been their to witness it, but I wonder why it was not reported in the local press ...
