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...paper ballots had been accidentally placed in current City Coun- cillor Katherine Triantafillou's pile after the November 1993 council election, according to Edward J. Samp Sr., the election board's chair. "No harm is done," Samp said yesterday. "It would not have affected the count in November 1993 at all, but it's embarrassing to us that this happened...
...ballots, 13 were distributed to Galluccio, one to McSweeney and five to the pile of "exhausted" ballots...
...nine city councillors quit today and resigned, the chance of me being elected are slim," he added. "The majority of my votes are in the exhausted pile...
...ballots that originally belonged to Walsh and were redistributed to losing candidates, Galluccio--who came in 12th in the original election--received 868 votes, and James J. McSweeney got 779, according to Neighbor. The "exhausted" pile--ballots with neither McSweeney nor Galluccio's name on them--constituted 516 votes...
McSweeney said 2284 of his original votes had ended up in the "exhausted" pile and were ineligible for recount. He charged that the city's voting system unfairly ignored those voters...