Word: recounter
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...election board yesterday held a day-long recount of ballots from last year's city council election, in the wake of Walsh's sentencing on 41 federal charges of bank fraud and conspiracy last month and his removal from office, as mandated by state...
...appears that the absence of the 19 ballots is not enough to sway the results of the recount. But Neighbor said the board cannot certify the results until they account for the discrepancy...
...recount coincided with a last-ditch effort by McSweeney--who had come in 10th in the original election--to challenge the constitutionality of the city's voting system, called proportional representation, in court...
McSweeney had obtained a restraining order from Middlesex County Superior Court blocking the recount earlier this month. But the court later allowed the recount to take place, and a Thursday appeal by McSweeney was unsuccessful at delaying the recount...
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...