Word: recounting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...special recount was necessitated by Walsh's removal last month from the city council, following his federal sentencing on 41 counts of bank fraud and conspiracy...
...final tally from the recount of Walsh's 1,282 ballots was 881 votes for Galluccio, 780 for James J. McSweency (who came in 10th in the 1993 council race), and 521 "exhausted" ballots, which had neither Galluccio's nor McSweency's name on them...
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...
...This is a matter of principle," he said. "You do not eliminate 2284 votes from a recount. Everybody's vote has to count...
...George A. Spartichino, a fence contractor who came in third in the recount before being eliminated, blamed McSweeney for refusing to accept defeat...