{"id":32719,"date":"2025-11-08T01:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T01:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/32719\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T01:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T01:54:07","slug":"latest-votes-in-too-close-to-call-race-for-mayor-of-pelham-manor-being-counted-in-white-plains-lapey-now-leads-by-20-votes-pelham-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/32719\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest votes in too-close-to-call race for mayor of Pelham Manor being counted in White Plains; Lapey now leads by 20 votes \u2013 Pelham Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pelham<\/a> <\/p>\n

Pelham Manor residents voting on Tuesday at the OLPH gym<\/p>\n

If the too-close-to-call mayoral election in Pelham Manor had taken place two years ago, all eyes would be on Village Hall, at 4 Penfield Place, where the review process would determine the winner. But since the village\u2019s elections were taken over by the county this year, the action is taking place in White Plains and Ardsley, where it\u2019s being run by officials from the Westchester County Board of Elections.<\/p>\n

As of Wednesday, the county board has been tallying absentee ballots as they arrive in the mail, so the number of votes received by Mayor Jennifer Monachino Lapey, a Republican, and challenger Mark Cardwell, a Democrat, are changing<\/a>.\u00a0 Lapey has now opened up a lead of 20 votes, 1,216 to 1,196. As for the race for two openings on the Manor Board of Trustees, incumbent Tim Case has pulled ahead of challenger Ryan Kurtz and is within 8 votes of the leader Deborah Winstead.<\/p>\n

By late Thursday, the county had processed 44 ballots it received since election day, according to information being circulated by the board. This day-by-day process will continue until next Wednesday, November 12, the cut-off day for receiving mail-in ballots, according to the New York State Board of Elections calendar for voting deadlines.<\/p>\n

According to data from the county, there were a total of 318 requests for absentee or mail-in ballots requested by residents of Pelham Manor in the weeks leading up to the election.\u00a0 Of that number, some 63 absentee ballots have yet to be received in White Plains. It\u2019s not clear how many of these will arrive in the next few days, or how many of these prospective absentee voters changed their minds and cast ballots at the polls, or did not vote at all.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the county will review invalid ballots received and conduct a canvass of affidavit ballots, according to a schedule sent on September 19 to all candidates about the election process. Affidavit ballots occur when a voter requests a mail-in or absentee ballot, but then decides to vote on election day via machine. If poll workers notice that the voter has requested a mail-in ballot, the voter must sign an affidavit at the polling station affirming the legitimacy of the vote.<\/p>\n

According the federal government, the canvassing process<\/a> \u201caggregates and confirms that all valid ballots cast in the election are accurately counted and included in the final election results.\u201d<\/p>\n

After all this, if the final tally between Lapey and Cardwell shows them within 20 votes of each other, officials at the county board of elections will conduct a manual recount.<\/p>\n

Pelham\u2019s Democrats\u2014who supported Cardwell and two other candidates for the Manor\u2019s Board of Trustees, Ryan Kurtz and Deborah Winstead\u2014say they take comfort from the fact the process will be overseen at the county level.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m one of the many people grateful that the county Board of Elections is overseeing the Manor vote count, since both major parties participate in the process,\u201d wrote Allison Frost, chair of Pelham, NY Democrats, in a message. \u201cThat provides a check and balance not required when the election was under village control.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for Republicans in the Manor, they can take comfort in the fairness of the process ahead, according to Douglas Colety, a Republican commissioner on the Westchester County Board of Elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe state of New York has the best system for running elections,\u201d said Colety in an interview today. \u201cOne party does not control the board of elections. For every Republican employee there is a Democrat counterpart. Everything has checks and balances. Every ballot has a chain of custody.\u00a0 One party cannot do anything without the other. It\u2019s not a system where everything is a free-for-all\u2026We have the highest standards, which means that every vote will be counted, and the election will be certified by a bipartisan board of elections. We can guarantee this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pelham Manor residents voting on Tuesday at the OLPH gym If the too-close-to-call mayoral election in Pelham Manor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-32719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}