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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...
...election Board certified the recount of Walsh's ballots Saturday night, and the endorsed results were hand-delivered to City Clerk D. Margaret Drury...
Artis B. Spears, one of the four election commissioners, discovered the missing ballots. "Going through the results of '93, we saw that Walsh had two precincts that gave him 19 ballots," Spears said yesterday. "The person who was next to him was Triantafillou, and we opened up her container...
...though the discovery of the missing ballots clears up one issue, the city's complicated voting system, called proportional representation, remains in dispute. McSweeney, who came in 10th in the council race and trailed Walsh by only 47 votes in the election, will appear this afternoon before the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), the state's highest judicial body, in a last-ditch attempt to prevent Galluccio from being sworn...