THE CROTON CHRONICLE
Do Voice of Croton's write-in candidates have a path to electoral victory?The answer: A hard maybe. That's because we have to wait until November 16 for the write-in votes to be counted. But we might have an idea before then.
Michael Balter--Nov 06, 2024
On the morning of the election, we reported that villagers might not know who has won the two open seats on the Croton Board of Trustees until at least November 16, the date the Westchester Board of Elections is tentatively slated to begin counting write-in votes. That is especially true, as we pointed out, if the election turns out to be close.
In other communities that did not have major write-in campaigns, such as that mounted by the Voice of Croton, voters will of course know the results in a fairly short time—just as we now know that Donald Trump has won the presidency of the United States, and Mondaire Jones has lost his bid to be our Congressman in the 17th Congressional District. We did not have to wait 10 or more days to find that out, although there have been relatively rare cases when we did (think Bush v. Gore in 2000.)
Under New York state law, write-in candidates have the same status as candidates whose names are printed on the ballot, if they can manage to get the most votes. Croton has had write-in campaigns before. While no one has won them in recent history, there have been some impressive showings. But that status is not reflected in how they are treated by Boards of Elections, which appear to feel free to wait a significant amount of time before counting their votes (unlike the votes of Len Simon and Maria Slippen, whose tallies, incomplete as they may currently be, can already be found in the Board of Election database.) READ MORE AT Do Voice of Croton's write-in candidates have a path to electoral victory?
Do Voice of Croton's write-in candidates have a path to electoral victory?The answer: A hard maybe. That's because we have to wait until November 16 for the write-in votes to be counted. But we might have an idea before then.
Michael Balter--Nov 06, 2024
On the morning of the election, we reported that villagers might not know who has won the two open seats on the Croton Board of Trustees until at least November 16, the date the Westchester Board of Elections is tentatively slated to begin counting write-in votes. That is especially true, as we pointed out, if the election turns out to be close.
In other communities that did not have major write-in campaigns, such as that mounted by the Voice of Croton, voters will of course know the results in a fairly short time—just as we now know that Donald Trump has won the presidency of the United States, and Mondaire Jones has lost his bid to be our Congressman in the 17th Congressional District. We did not have to wait 10 or more days to find that out, although there have been relatively rare cases when we did (think Bush v. Gore in 2000.)
Under New York state law, write-in candidates have the same status as candidates whose names are printed on the ballot, if they can manage to get the most votes. Croton has had write-in campaigns before. While no one has won them in recent history, there have been some impressive showings. But that status is not reflected in how they are treated by Boards of Elections, which appear to feel free to wait a significant amount of time before counting their votes (unlike the votes of Len Simon and Maria Slippen, whose tallies, incomplete as they may currently be, can already be found in the Board of Election database.) READ MORE AT Do Voice of Croton's write-in candidates have a path to electoral victory?
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