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WPCNR COUNTY CLARION-LEDGER. By John F. Bailey. September 18, 2002: After five hours behind closed doors at the Board of Elections on Quarropas Street examining Absentee Ballots and Affidavit Ballots, representatives from the Naomi Matusow and Adam Bradley candidacies and Ms. Matusow and Mr. Bradley sat down in an enclosed glass room to count just the White Plains ballots that had been accepted for counting.

DEMOCRACY UNDER GLASS: The counting of the 35 absentee ballots and affidavit ballots from White Plains as it proceeded Wednesday afternoon. A BOE clerk holds a ballot for Naomi Matusow and Adam Bradley to view.
Photo by WPCNR

At the end of 35 minutes, Mr. Bradley emerged from the counting at 4:45 PM Wednesday to announce he had a net gain of 12 votes, winning 22 votes, with Matusow gaining 10 and 3 being questioned, extending his lead to 35 votes.
Unofficially, this brings Mr. Bradley’s vote total to 2,716 to Assemblywoman Naomi Matusow’s, 2,681. The figures are from the Bradley campaign.

The counting of absentee ballots from Harrison, New Castle, Lewisboro, Pound Ridge, North Castle and Bedford will resume at 10:00 A.M. Thursday morning at the Board of Elections. According to Bradley number cruncher, Tim James there are 38 more absentee ballots and 10 affidavitt ballots left to be counted beginning tomorrow.

Tom Roach, who was watching the numbers with WPCNR most of Thursday afternoon, and speculating with us, after listening to Mr. James, calculated that the Bradley “Magic Number” is 8. He needs 8 votes out of the remaining 48 to get a majority of 3 votes.

WPCNR MILKMAN’S MATINEE NEWS ROUNDUP CORRECTION. By John F. Bailey. September 18, 2002: The Common Council convening a Special meeting at 6:05 PM Wednesday evening, took 5 minutes to approve the Sears Special Permit to run an auto repair shop in The Galleria. The Planning Board also took significant action.
Wynnette Peltz, Director of Marketing for the mall, thanked the city and council for “their tremendous cooperation,” and invited them all to come shop. Demolition was supposed to begin today, providing Mike Gismondi turned over the Demolition Permit to Mr. Bergins, The Galleria attorney. The council then went into Executive Session on undisclosed litigation, so hush-hush, that the group left, WPCNR believes, by the elevator, discreetly avoiding the media.

William King corrected this false impression, writing WPCNR to report the council left as it usually does by the stairs at 7 PM, as it usually does.

Planning Board Approves Pettinichi Subdivision.

The unanimous approval granted the Pettinichis last night, (providing they eliminate the easement to the Dellwood property in Silver Lake, and preserve the lot where the revolutionary sawmill stands), struck down the last hurdle standing between the county purchasing the Pettinichi parcel for public employee housing, and the city leasing the county-owned Dellwood property for a “passive” park in Silver Lake.