Union Teams Take East Rock, Bella Vista, Newhallville, Dixwell, Dwight In Primaries | New Haven Independent

 (Union-backed candidates lost in Beaver Hills’ Ward 29. They won on the machines, but lost on absentee ballots.  A recount is scheduled for Friday because the second and third-place candidates were only one vote apart. (As the absentee ballots were counted at 200 Orange St. Tuesday night, a supporter of the union candidates, Alderman Brian Wingate, tried to have the process stopped because of what he said were absentee ballot irregularities. It wasn’t stopped. The moderator of the count, attorney John A. Cirello, refused to allow photography of the process; he later apologized for what he called an honest misreading of the law.)


Union Teams Take East Rock, Bella Vista, Newhallville, Dixwell, Dwight In Primaries | New Haven Independent

Ward 29 (Beaver Hills):
Audrey Tyson 286 (158 on machines, 116 on absentees, 2 on “hand counts”)
Thomas Ficklin 213 (142 on machines, 71 on absentee ballots)
Major Ruth 212 (193 on machines, 19 on absentees)*
Betty Alford 194 (178 on machines, 16 on absentees)*

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