Politics & Government
Mail-In Ballots Clinch Dems' Victory For 2nd District Assembly
After trailing on election night, Assemblymen Vince Mazzeo and John Armato won the final tally.
ATLANTIC COUNTY, NJ — Democratic incumbents won the 2nd District Assembly race after trailing on election night. Assemblymen Vince Mazzeo and John Armato emerged victorious once mail-in and provisional ballots were counted by Thursday morning.
Mazzeo and Armato won by 2,254 and 939 votes, respectively. They trailed by similar numbers based on voting-machine results Nov. 5.
Republican candidates Atlantic County Freeholder John Risley, of Egg Harbor Township, and Phil Guenther, former longtime mayor of Brigantine, conceded. But they claimed the huge vote-by-mail numbers for Democrats thwart the will of voters.
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The Democratic team got more than twice as many mail-in votes — about 5,000 each to the Republicans' 2,400 each.
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