Dear fellow Hanoverians:
I thought you would appreciate an update from the closely watched State
Representative’s race. When the ballot machine results were tallied
Tuesday night, Rhonda Nyman had 3037 votes and David DeCoste had 3014 votes
in Hanover. According to on-line reports from the Hanover Mariner, when
results from Rockland and Norwell were added to this tally, DeCoste was up
by 59 votes at the end of the night across the three towns.
Hand-counted, Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA),
and Federal Write-in Absentee Ballot (FWAB), and possible provisional
ballots are not included in those results. In Hanover, the 17 hand-counted
ballots yielded 11 additional votes for Nyman and 6 additional votes for
DeCoste. There are a total of 4 UOCAVA and FWAB ballots in Hanover that by
statute cannot be counted until after 5:00 p.m. on November 14th. There
are also 26 possible provisional ballots in Hanover. Rockland and Norwell
numbers are not included in this information, but both towns continued to
count ballots this past week. Updates are surely available from on-line
media reports.
Provisional ballots are issued for two possible reasons, and in Hanover,
all of provisional ballots were issued because a voter appeared at the
polls and did not appear on the voting lists. The other reason why a
provisional ballot would have been issued – an ID was required but the
voter did not have one – did not occur on Tuesday in Hanover.
The Registrars of Voters, the Assistant Town Clerk and I continue to
research the statewide voter registration history of all 26 of the possible
provisional voters. It is quite an exhaustive process. These
determinations must be completed by November 16th, and reported to the
state by November 19th. We plan to make a final determination regarding
whether some or perhaps even all of the 26 ballots in Hanover can be
counted on Thursday, November 13th.
Finally, a representative from the Nyman campaign inquired about recount
petitions on Friday, November 7th in my office. While we had petition
forms for a town-wide or individual precinct recounts, the campaign was
interested in receiving district-wide petition forms, which are available
from the Secretary of State’s Elections Division. It is not known
whether or not those forms were requested or received yesterday.
As this process continues to unfold, don’t hesitate to direct questions
to me at (781) 826-5000, x1079 or catherine.harderbernier@hanover-ma.gov .
For “Around Town on the Web”,
Cathy H-B
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