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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...
...discovery of the missing ballots followed an anxiety-filled weekend, with former council candidates saying a miscount might invalidate the results of the whole election. But Samp said the ballots had been misplaced after being tallied, not before...
...Triantafillou wasn't given credit for any ballot other than she deserves," Samp said. "It made absolutely no difference in her official count because the ballots had already been counted...
...Samp said the error was not detected before because no recount of the ballots had taken place between the 1993 election and last week...
...wonder if they just don't appreciate the right to vote, or if they are just turned off to the political process," Samp said...