Don Clavin might have declared victory…
But the people who actually count the ballots have not….
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More than a week after Election Day, the Hempstead Town supervisor race remains undecided.
According to a representative from the Nassau County Board of Elections, affidavit and emergency ballots are still being counted in the race between incumbent Supervisor Laura Gillen, a Democrat, and Republican challenger Don Clavin.
After the emergency and affidavit ballots are tallied, the board will then review absentee ballots. It has until Nov. 29 to declare a winner in the race. On Election Day, Clavin had 50 percent of the vote, while Gillen received 49 percent and Independence Party candidate Diane Madden garnered 1 percent.
Gillen became the first Democratic town supervisor in more than a century when she defeated Anthony Santino in 2017. She was seeking a second term. Clavin has served as the town’s receiver of taxes since 2001. Though the race was not officially declared in his favor, Clavin gave a victory speech after polls closed on Nov. 5.
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Gillen did not concede the race, and the board has until the day after Thanksgiving to declare a victor….
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Nassau County has not been the same since Joey Buttafuoco left.
The Republicans actually did pretty good considering their numbers are dwindling pretty fast…
As with 2016?
The GOPer’s come to vote…
The influx of new people into the country try to replace the older and those moving south are east and west asian’s and hispanics…
They do NOT vote in the same numbers as white’s still in Republican area’s…
As much as the media paints a picture of no immigrants coming to America is incorrect….
And some have money to buy houses…
A write in to a local Nassau County Long Island newspaper the islandnow with a view of how a largely orthodox Jewish area is helping Republicans hold on in the Town of Hempstead even as their number of Republicans drastically declines…
Readers Write: How ACO, “The Squad’ delivered a GOP victory in Hempstead
…By mid, 2017, four of the counties biggest Republican names had been indicted on corruption charges. Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto, New York State Senator Dean Skelos, and Hempstead Town Councilman Ed Ambrosino.
The indictments, changing demographics, and infighting amongst Hempstead Republicans lead to the narrow election of Democrat Laura Gillen as Hempstead town supervisor, and Democrat Laura Curran as Nassau County Executive. Gillen’s election marked the first time in over 100 years that a Democrat was elected Supervisor in the Town of Hempstead.
The trend would only worsen in 2018 when Democrats picked up an additional two State Senate Seats that included parts of Hempstead Town.
Hempstead is America’s largest Township with a population of nearly 800,000 people, and 57% of Nassau County residents live in the Town of Hempstead. The stakes could not be higher in Hempstead politicly.
Gillen’s tenure as Supervisor was rocky from the start. Nassau Democrats were involved in their own scandals, Gillen had a poor relationship with the Republican-controlled town board, and changes to the counties Re-Assessment made under County Executive Laura Curran resulted in a property tax increase for a majority of Hempstead and Nassau voters. Many voters confused Laura Curran with Laura Gillen.
Two years after Gillen’s election as Town Supervisor, she was narrowly defeated for re-election as Town Supervisor by Hempstead Receiver of Taxes Don Clavin by a 50%-49% margin. 74,123-72,731. As of November 12th, Clavin lead Gillen by 1,392 votes out of 148,147 cast.
There are still over 5,500 absentee ballots to be counted, however, Gillen would need to win 64 percent of them, which is highly unlikely.
In an exceedingly close election, one must look to Hempstead’s largely Orthodox Jewish Five Town’s which provided Clavin’s margin of victory….
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