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Shandaken squeaker: DiSclafani and Steen leading for town board, Stanley ahead for supervisor, but absentee ballots await

by Violet Snow
November 7, 2019
in Politics & Government
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New Paltz village wants to try runoff voting
Rob Stanley

Candidates for office in Shandaken and their supporters were left in suspense on Election Night, when the Ulster County Board of Elections closed due to a medical emergency for one of their staff members, leaving the results on the board’s website only 90 percent tallied. In Shandaken, where the town council and supervisor races were both close, only three of the four districts had been posted.

By noon Wednesday, when the results were finally posted, town supervisor Rob Stanley was ahead by 35 votes, 543 to 508, with Stanley receiving 52% percent of the vote and Democratic challenger Brian Powers at 48%, with one write-in. Yet to be counted are, as of the day after election, are 55 write-in votes, of which Powers would need to tally 46 to take the lead, a high bar, indeed. Of the absentee ballots received, 31 were from Democrats, 18 from Republicans, two from voters not enrolled in any party, plus a smattering from other parties. There are still 33 outstanding ballots that can be received. 

Democratic town board member Peter DiSclafani had edged ahead with 526 votes, or 26% of the vote for the two open council positions. Republican Kyle Steen was second, with 516, or 25%, while Vivian Welton, a Democrat, tallied 492, or 24% percent, and Republican Ken Booth with 480, or just short of 24 percent. With only 10 to 24 votes separating each of the candidates, absentee ballot counts could play a role. Absentee ballots will be counted beginning on November 18.

The Phoenicia Library referendum, on whether to increase the library’s budget by $10,000, passed, 635 to 401, with 61.23 percent approval.

Shandaken incumbents kept their positions in four uncontested races, including town clerk Joyce Grant, highway superintendent Eric Hofmeister, and town assessors Janet Klugiewicz and Dave Channon.

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Violet Snow

Violet Snow wrote regularly for the Woodstock Times for 17 years and continues to contribute to Hudson Valley One. She has been published in the New York Times “Disunion” blog, Civil War Times, American Ancestors, Jewish Currents, and many other periodicals. An excerpt from her historical novel, To March or to Marry, has appeared in the feminist journal Minerva Rising. She lives in Phoenicia and is currently working with horses, living out her childhood dream.

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