Some Races Come Down To Absentee Ballots
Published: November 15th, 2007
By: Jessica Lewis

Some races come down to absentee ballots

CHENANGO COUNTY – For more than a week, several candidates running for political office in Chenango County have been waiting to hear if they won or lost, and Wednesday, after counting all of the absentee ballots, the Chenango County Board of Elections had the answers for them.

At 10 a.m., political candidates and their family members joined elections officials and a couple of lawyers to witness the opening of all of the absentee ballots that were sent in over the last week. Three political races in the county were so close that absentee ballots played a role in the outcome, and in one case, a vast number of write-in votes needed to be counted.

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