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Posted by Stop the spin HEALY MAYOR 94 on November 03, 2004 at 23:52:13:
In Reply to: Jersey City Mayoral Election In Doubt - Associated Press Reports posted by Over Ten Thousand Votes Not Yet Counted on November 03, 2004 at 22:56:03:
: HEALY ELECTION NOT CONFRIMED !!!! : JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Jerramiah Healy was leading in a special election for mayor of Jersey City on Wednesday, but election officials said about 10 percent of the vote could not be tallied because the ballots had yet to be turned in. : : Inclan said the election would not be certified until Monday at the earliest. : In past elections, Inclan said, cartridges have been late arriving because poll workers had mistakenly taken them home or locked them inside machines. Inclan said it would require a judge's order to unlock any machines containing cartridges. : The missing cartridges added another snag to what one former mayor called a "wild and woolly" race among 11 candidates to fill the unexpired term of former Mayor Glenn D. Cunningham, who died of heart attack in May. One highlight of the race was a photograph posted on the Internet of Healy passed out naked on his front stoop. : Inclan's latest tally was of 166 of the city's 184 precincts, or 90.22 percent of the total, before he closed his office at about midnight Tuesday. : "I was ready to work overnight," Inclan said Wednesday afternoon. "I think an election as important as this is worth it, but some people decided to go home at 11 o'clock last night." : At latest count, Healy led with 15,554 votes, or 28.4 percent. Assemblyman Louis M. Manzo trailed Healy by 2,685 votes, with 23.71 percent. Council President and Acting Mayor L. Harvey Smith was third, with 21.82 percent, and Willie Flood, a former councilwoman, was fourth, with 14.23 percent. : Inclan said the figures do not include a handful of paper ballots from two precincts with so few voters that machines are not used there. : Healy, 53, claimed victory Tuesday night. : Inclan said safeguards against tampering with the cartridges included duplicate data stored on voting machine hard drives. : Besides the ballots on the cartridges, some of the city's 5,500 absentee ballots also remained uncounted Wednesday, said Robert Garrison, a commissioner on the county Board of Elections. : Inclan said he would not certify a winner until all votes were counted. He said there were 4,000 provisional ballots that would have to be counted, an unusually large number he attributed to new registrants who, for example, may have shown up to vote in the wrong polling places.
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