Article in the Waterbury Republican <read>
Close races prove votes matter
In New Hartford, just one vote separated Phyllis Webb and Bruce Gresczyk for a seat on the Board of Selectmen. With just 16 votes separating three selectman candidates in Oxford, a recount is expected to determine which two will serve the next two years. Democrat Elizabeth T. Falzone and Republican William L. Fredericks battled to a tie for a Region 16 Board of Education seat…
if just two Webb supporters in New Hartford had hopped into their cars and driven to the polls rather than staying home, she’d have a seat waiting for her on the Board of Selectmen, pending a recount…
Ms. Bysiewicz reported recounts will be necessary in at least 35 communities, or about 20 percent of the towns and cities in Connecticut.
Reminders from CTVotersCount:
- Votes matter. Voters Matter
- Election Integrity Matters – just one machine programming error or manual transcription error can cause differences of hundreds or thousands of votes.
- Connecticut has “Close Vote Recanvasses” – these are not really recounts as they are usually understood – they are machine recanvasses performed by reading most of the votes back through machines with memory cards programmed by those same out of state contractors, LHS Associates.
