The counting of 235 mail and emergency ballots by the state Board of Elections failed to change races in Tuesday's municipal election. The vote totals for candidates increased, but the order in which they finished remained the same. Of the 6,934 eligible voters in town, 67.7 percent, or 4,699 people, cast votes in Tuesday's election.
Candidates have seven days after the election to request a hearing or recount.
Those 235 ballots could have made a difference in races for three seats on the Town Council and for the nine-member Charter Review Commission. In the council race, Independent candidate Joseph DePasquale finished fourth in Tuesday's election and needed to pick up 146 votes on the third-place finisher, Democratic council vice president, Frank J. Alfano. But DePasquale lost ground in the count of those ballots. He got 85 more votes while Alfano added 106 to the 1,969 he received Tuesday. In the race for nine spots on the Charter Review Commission, the last four finishers all had a chance mathematically to win a seat.