White Plains CitizeNetReporter - Board of Elections Misses 180 Votes in White Plains Districts 9 & 13

WPCNR Afternoon Trib & Post. By John F. Bailey. September 17, 2002: As suspense mounted at 12:40 PM at White Plains Firestation # 2, the City Clerk's Room, as a Westchester County Board of Elections Recanvasser read out the numbers for Adam Bradley's line 12B and Naomi Matusow's Line, 13 B, as Tim James and Robert Baror, observers of Assembly District 89 Recanvass for Mr. Bradley and Ms. Matusow, held their breaths.

"12B -- 145, 13B--- 35," THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS INSPECTOR READ THIS AFTERNOON AT 12:44 PM, confirming Mr. Bradley's contention since last Friday that the Board of Elections Canvass Sheets were in error showing him and Ms. Matusow having zero votes in Districts 9 & 13, one of his "strongholds." Here are the missing vote totals as they appeared on Machine15057, after they had been read off. Mr. Bradley's line is 12B, Ms. Matusow's, 13B.
Photo by WPCNR

Tim James, watching the machine-by-machine countdown, exclaimed, "that's more of a margin than we'd hoped for!"

The official recanvass today showed Mr. Bradley to be correct in claiming that the Board of Elections canvas posted on their website was misreporting the count.

All other Board of Elections numbers for the 14 other White Plains districts where Bradley and Matusow contested were correct.

Mr. Buror declined to comment on how he saw this affecting Ms. Matusow's Board of Elections-reported lead of 99 votes. Tim James, his Bradley counterpart, said the numbers that he has up-to-this-morning, show Matusow ahead 2,610 to Bradley's 2,530.

To that, James said the Board of Elections has added 26 absentee votes for Matusow and 19 absentee votes for Bradley. James remarked that the "found" 145 votes for Bradley and 35 for Matusow, now give Mr. Bradley a margin of 23 votes, 2,694 to 2,671 with the recanvasses of Lewisboro, Bedford and Matusow's North Castle citadel to check in this afternoon.

James said that the remainder of the Absentee Ballots of which, according to his information there are 64, plus 80 Affidavitt Ballots may be opened and read Wednesday morning.

James said there was no firm indication of whether the Absentees and Affidavitt Ballots were going to be counted Wednesday morning, but that was his understanding that they were.

Meanwhile in Supreme Court Tuesday morning, Adam Bradley was filing court papers contesting the election, however WPCNR has no details on the grounds.


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