Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Mayoral and Council Race Totals in With Absentees

Update 11:55PM 6/10/2009: Here are the updated totals for Mayor and Coucil including absentee ballots. We should know the number of provisional ballots today but will not know how those votes go until tomorrow at the earliest. If the total difference is less than 100 votes there will be a recount.

Hoboken Mayor:
Peter Cammarano: 6043
Dawn Zimmer: 5976

Hoboken City Council At-Large:
Ravi Bhalla: 5810
Carol Marsh: 5803
Dave Mello: 5597
Vinny Addeo: 5437
Raul Morales: 5305
Angel Alicea: 5302

Update 7:40AM 6/10/2009:
NJ.com Hobokenow reported late last night the absentee ballots have been counted. With the help of absentees, Peter Cammarano leads Hoboken's election by 67 votes. The current vote count, including absentees was 6,043 Cammarano to 5,976 to Dawn Zimmer. Provisional ballots have yet to be counted. We should know the the total sometime today but the provisional ballots can't be opened until at least 48 hours after the election which is June 11th. Assuming the absentee ballots disparity of almost 3-1 holds up and provisionals are in the order of the 100 this would appear to mathematically favor Cammarano at this point. Any margin less than 100 would mean a recount. There also still exists the possibility of legal challenges as well in addition to the recount.

I have no official word on the City Council races but given the gap in the machine totals it is very likely that all three of Zimmer's slate are in as City Council. A tentative congratulations goes out to Carol Marsh, Ravi Bhalla, and Dave Mello.

If anything breaks on this I will let you know. Otherwise expect a light blogging period on this site for the next few days so I can get some rest.:)

Original Post 6/9/2009 10:28PM:
Here are the Machine totals for the runoff Election today. One district is not yet reporting so the machine numbers could change. As of now Dawn Zimmer is up on the machine count by 244 votes and that does not include the results from 775 absentee ballots or provisional ballots.

Hoboken Mayor
35/35 100.00%

Vote Count Percent
- Dawn Zimmer 5,786 51.08%
- Peter Cammarano 5,542 48.92%
Total 11,328 100.00%

The Council margins look good for Carol Marsh, Ravi Bhalla and David Mello. Unless something extremely improbable with the provisionals happens it looks like they safely have the margins to all get in to City Council. Again this is preliminary. Stay tuned for more. I will update from my I phone. Dawn's ticket is having a gathering at the Goldhawk at 10th and Willow that started around 10:15PM.

Hoboken Council At Large
35/35 100.00%

Vote Count Percent
- Carol Marsh 5,621 17.97%
- Ravi S. Bhalla 5,623 17.98%
- David Mello 5,419 17.33%

It is possible we will not know the final results of the Mayoral elction tonight but it looks pretty sure for the Zimmer Council slate.

- Angel L. Alicea 4,832 15.45%
- Vincent Addeo 4,953 15.84%
- Raul Morales II 4,826 15.43%

Total 31,274 100.00% ◦
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