On September 8, 2021, a voice on Ella Scarborough’s computer called out “yes,” casting the deciding vote in a 5-4 decision to adopt “a Revised Countywide Board of Health Rule requiring face covering when indoors in all businesses, establishments and public places, including schools (public, private and parochial) within Mecklenburg County.” Everyone seems to acknowledge that it wasn’t Ella Scarborough voting during that meeting.