Kids First Officially Win School Board Elections
With all the votes counted, the Kids First candidates have officially won the school board elections.
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Mail in ballots and provisionals have not altered the outcome of the elections on November 6.
This means that the three Kids First candidates — Tom Kluepfel, Jean Marie Mitchell and incumbent Ruth McAllister — have secured their seats on the board, guaranteeing the slate's super majority on the board.
The total results, according to the Hudson County Board of Elections, are as follows:
Kluepfel: 4,259 votes
Mitchell: 4,097 votes
McAllister: 4,216 votes
The Move Forward candidates — the opposing ticket made up of Anthony Oland, Elizabeth Markevitch and Felice Vazquez — gained votes with the mail in ballots, but enough to win.
Oland: 3,499 votes
Markevitch: 4,019 votes
Vazquez: 3,481 votes.
Independent candidate Patricia Waiters got 1,284 votes.
HobokenReformer
10:10 am on Thursday, November 29, 2012
Claire, things that happened 2 days ago are not news anymore. This is the 21st century where people have easy access to new information via mobile devices. If you want to become relevant as a news source, you got to get with the program and report things when they are happening, not several days later.
Hobbs
10:11 am on Thursday, November 29, 2012
Congratulations to the entire KIDS FIRST team. Well done. :-)
Andy
2:36 pm on Thursday, November 29, 2012
Congratulations - almost a month later. I'm surprised certain people in town didn't suddenly "find votes" to flip the results.
DaHorsey, SmartyJones of MSV
3:39 pm on Thursday, November 29, 2012
Don't be sure there was not an effort to muster up lots of votes to upend the election.
Today's feature on the views of some of the people on both sides of the BoE race:
http://www.hobokenhorse.com/2012/11/boe-election-rivals-weigh-in-on.html
oldguard
3:39 pm on Thursday, November 29, 2012
Where's the increased particpation because this election was held in November? With the way the vote change advocates were crowing, I would have expected at least 10,000 votes for the top vote getter. I don't think moving the elections will have the impact desired.
Journey
12:44 pm on Friday, November 30, 2012
Here are the last 5 school board election totals. Draw your own conclusion about turn out.
2012 24,900
2011 10,523
2010 9,941
2009 15,056
2008 11,215
pdq
12:44 pm on Friday, November 30, 2012
I think the impact desired was met. The intention of the move to November elections served to save money for the school board and taxpayers. Which is exactly what it has done.
mcgato
12:44 pm on Friday, November 30, 2012
This year's results are above, but 4097 votes got 3rd and a board seat.
Last year's April election results are below: 1980 votes got 3rd and a board seat.
Carmelo G. Garcia 2,296
Clifford Godfrey 1,327
Jean Marie Mitchell 1,358
Steve Feinstein 1,247
Frances Rhodes-Kearns 1,980
Patricia Waiters 278
Peter Biancamano 1,996
When there is strong evidence that certain groups can buy upwards of 500 votes by mail, plus more to show up on election day, it is easy to see why they wanted to maintain a low voter turnout. Easier to buy an election when only 2000 votes are needed to win a seat.
Ojo Rojo
12:44 pm on Friday, November 30, 2012
The winners in 2010 got something like 1,500 votes each. The winners in 2011 got closer to 1900 I believe. This election the winners got over 4,000 votes.
pdq
12:44 pm on Friday, November 30, 2012
Super majority is a non sequitur.