WPCNR COUNTY CLARION-LEDGER. September 17, 2003 UPDATED September 18, 2003, 2 PM E.D.T.: Frank Cantatore, Chairman of the White Plains Republican Committee told WPCNR Wednesday evening that The Board of Elections had assured him the White Plains Primary votes would be counted Thursday morning. Yesterday, he said he was told by Carolee Sunderland, "They were more interested in the Yonkers and Eastchester races." Mr. Cantatore said the delay, "was inconvenient for everybody."

By 5 o'clock Wednesday, a spokesperson for Co Commissioner Carolee Sunderland's office told WPCNR that recounting of White Plains Affidavit Ballots and Absentee Ballots in the "too-close-to-call" Republican Primary would not take place at the Board of Elections until Thursday. "They're still busy making rulings on Eastchester, New Rochelle and Yonkers," the spokesperson said.

A total of 80-odd Absentees and Affidavits were to be counted by the Board of Elections in the White Plains race, and instead of taking White Plains first, the Absentees and Affidavits from more populated areas of the county were opened and are being ruled on first. The spokesperson said no White Plains results were expected the rest of today; and they had not started counting and ruling yet, and  gave no reason why the much lower vote in White Plains was not handled first.