Wayne Board Of Education Votes To Be Recounted

WAYNE, N.J. — A recount will be held for the final three-year term on the Wayne Board of Education.

Cheryl Gambuti filed a petition for a recount Nov. 23, which Passaic County Superior Court Judge Ernest M. Caposela subsequently approved.

Machine votes will be recounted by the Passaic County Superintendent of Elections Sherine El-Abd Tuesday at 10 a.m. Mail-in and provisional ballots will be recounted afterwards in the Board of Elections office in Paterson.

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It has been a back-and-forth affair in terms of who won the final term, Suzanne Pudup or Gambuti.

Pudup received 4,306 votes, five more than Gambuti's 4,301, which includes votes cast on election day, along with provisional, mail-in, and overseas ballots.

Pudup received the most number of votes as of Election Day, but the addition of mail-in ballots pushed Gambuti ahead of her by nine votes. Then overseas ballots were counted, which put Pudup ahead by five.

Residents elected incumbents Mitch Badiner and Michael Bubba to the other two, three-year terms. Stacy Scher was elected to serve a two-year unexpired term. Residents also, overwhelmingly, voted down bringing full-day kindergarten to the district.

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