Dear fellow Hanoverians:
\nI thought you would appreciate an update from the closely watched State
\nRepresentative\u2019s race. When the ballot machine results were tallied
\nTuesday night, Rhonda Nyman had 3037 votes and David DeCoste had 3014 votes
\nin Hanover. According to on-line reports from the Hanover Mariner, when
\nresults from Rockland and Norwell were added to this tally, DeCoste was up
\nby 59 votes at the end of the night across the three towns.
\nHand-counted, Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA),
\nand Federal Write-in Absentee Ballot (FWAB), and possible provisional
\nballots are not included in those results. In Hanover, the 17 hand-counted
\nballots yielded 11 additional votes for Nyman and 6 additional votes for
\nDeCoste. There are a total of 4 UOCAVA and FWAB ballots in Hanover that by
\nstatute cannot be counted until after 5:00 p.m. on November 14th. There
\nare also 26 possible provisional ballots in Hanover. Rockland and Norwell
\nnumbers are not included in this information, but both towns continued to
\ncount ballots this past week. Updates are surely available from on-line
\nmedia reports.
\nProvisional ballots are issued for two possible reasons, and in Hanover,
\nall of provisional ballots were issued because a voter appeared at the
\npolls and did not appear on the voting lists. The other reason why a
\nprovisional ballot would have been issued \u2013 an ID was required but the
\nvoter did not have one \u2013 did not occur on Tuesday in Hanover.
\nThe Registrars of Voters, the Assistant Town Clerk and I continue to
\nresearch the statewide voter registration history of all 26 of the possible
\nprovisional voters. It is quite an exhaustive process. These
\ndeterminations must be completed by November 16th, and reported to the
\nstate by November 19th. We plan to make a final determination regarding
\nwhether some or perhaps even all of the 26 ballots in Hanover can be
\ncounted on Thursday, November 13th.
\nFinally, a representative from the Nyman campaign inquired about recount
\npetitions on Friday, November 7th in my office. While we had petition
\nforms for a town-wide or individual precinct recounts, the campaign was
\ninterested in receiving district-wide petition forms, which are available
\nfrom the Secretary of State\u2019s Elections Division. It is not known
\nwhether or not those forms were requested or received yesterday.
\nAs this process continues to unfold, don\u2019t hesitate to direct questions
\nto me at (781) 826-5000, x1079 or catherine.harderbernier@hanover-ma.gov .<\/p>\n
For “Around Town on the Web”,
\nCathy H-B<\/p>\n
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Dear fellow Hanoverians: I thought you would appreciate an update from the closely watched State Representative\u2019s race. When the ballot machine results were tallied Tuesday night, Rhonda Nyman had 3037 votes and David DeCoste had 3014 votes in Hanover. According … Continue reading