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...surprise discovery that 19 ballots are missing prevented the city's Board of Election Commissions from declaring a victor in the special count...
When a seat is vacated, the board does not count all ballots from the election. Thus, only the 2182 ballots that listed Walsh as first choice, and ballots transferred to him from losing candidates, were counted...
...This is a matter of principle," he said. "You do not eliminate 2284 votes from a recount. Everybody's vote has to count...
Newman agreed. "The most fair way from my standpoint is that the tenth person should be appointed," he said in an interview last night. "Another fair way would be to count all the ballots over again...
...main problem is you don't know who you're voting for," he added. "People in this particular case, if they voted for me, their vote doesn't count...