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.
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.