Thursday, November 29, 2012
With all the votes counted, the Kids First candidates have officially won the school board elections.
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 …
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
After counting the nearly 18,000 vote by mail ballots, the three Kids First candidates are still in the lead. Provisional votes are yet to be counted.
After counting Hoboken's vote by mail ballots, the three Kids First school board candidates — Tom Kluepfel, Jean Marie Mitchell and Ruth McAllister — continue to hold a lead over Anthony Oland, Liz Markevitch and Felice Vazquez, their Move Forward adversaries. Hudson County Board of Elections clerk Michael Harper released the new numbers on Tuesday. The lead, however, is small in some cases. Mitchell, for example, holds only a 6-vote lead over Markevitch. Including the vote by mail ballots, these are the new tallies: Kleupfel: 3,979 votes; McAllister: 3,972 votes; Mitchell: 3,817 votes. On election day, Kluepfel earned a total of 3,426 votes, Mitchell received 3,223 votes and McAllister took 3,498 votes. The new Move Forward vote count is…
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Election day is over, but the results could still change. The Hudson County Board of Elections received 1,875 vote by mail ballots that have yet to be counted.
The polls have closed, but Hoboken's elections may not be over yet. According to the Hudson County Board of Elections, 1,875 vote by mail ballots were received and are yet to be counted, according to the board clerk Michael Harper. Due to Sandy, the ballot receipt deadline was moved to November 19, Harper said. Because of that extention, Harper continued, "the board will not be releasing vote by mail tallies untill November 20th." A total of 2,824 vote by mail ballots were requested from Hoboken. Some more may come in, according to Harper. The three Kids First candidates received a majority of the votes on Tuesday, beating all three Move Forward candidates on the machines. On Tuesday night, the Kids First candidates were cautiously …
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Councilwoman Beth Mason donated $7,000 to the Move Forward school board campaign, which is not in accordance with a local ordinance.
A $7,000 donation by Councilwoman Beth Mason to the Move Forward Board of Education ticket is at the heart of a political debate in Hoboken. Because a local ordinance, which was passed by the Hoboken city council, states that political action committees can't donate more than $500 to local elections, Councilman Ravi Bhalla has maintained that Mason is breaking the law by donating more. The thought behind the ordinance, Bhalla said, is to "try to limit the influence of money in politics." The issue was first raised by Bhalla during a recent council meeting. Mason, in turn, maintains that Hoboken's ordinance is pre-empted by state law, and therefore isn't following it. In an e-mail blast to constituents, Mason wrote, "In an effort to …
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. more ›