STEPHENTOWN [NY] — Unofficial results after Election Day a month ago showed that Stephentown Memorial Library’s budget proposal was shot down by 89% of voters, or 528-60.
As it turns out, that count was wildly inaccurate.
Certified election results submitted by the Rensselaer County Board of Elections following a recount show that the library’s proposal — to increase municipal tax contributions from $95,000 to $110,000 — actually passed easily by a vote of 540 to 279. Those results were filed Monday with the state Board of Elections.
I’m surprised that there was any evidence of the fraud left to find!Wasn’t fraud. It was a badly designed ballot.
I was a little confused on initial read, but I missed that it was a counting machine, not a voting machine.