Preston's Congdon wins again
Preston – Incumbent Republican First Selectman Robert Congdon came out victorious again this morning, but lost one vote in the recount of last Tuesday's close election.
In the recount, Congdon received 609 votes to Democratic Selectman Timothy Bowles' 593. There was also a handful of write-ins that were not part of the recount.
During the recount, which lasted nearly three hours, election officials counted the same number of total ballots by hand as last Tuesday, 1,211, but when the ballots were fed into the machine, it registered only 1,210.
Congdon speculated that two ballots might have been stuck together when election moderator Ted Powell and Democratic Registrar Ellie Michaud fed the ballots into the machine today.
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