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NJ Town's Republican Town Council Candidate Who Lost By 3 Votes Calls For Recount NJ Town's Republican Town Council Candidate Who Lost By 3 Votes Calls For Recount
NJ Town's Republican Town Council Candidate Who Lost By 3 Votes Calls For Recount A Republican candidate running for the Clinton Common Council is calling for a recount after losing to the Democratic incumbent by just three votes in this year's election. Nicholas Bruno ran against incumbents Rielly Karsh and Megan Johnson, for two open seats to serve a three-year term on Nov. 3. According to election results posted Friday, Bruno received 909 votes while Johnson won with 912. And now he wants a recount. "I have filed for a recount because of the narrow margins separating all 3 candidates and anticipate an order to recount in the next coming days," Bruno said in a Fa…

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by Cecilia Levine
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NJ Man Charged With Voter Fraud NJ Man Charged With Voter Fraud
NJ Man Charged With Voter Fraud A Hunterdon County man was arrested for pretending to be someone else on a mail-in ballot, authorities said Saturday. Brian C. Shilling, 53, of Stockton, "falsely completed the ballot, forging the signature of another certifying the ballot and sending in the fraudulent ballot to the Hunterdon County Board of Elections purporting that it was cast by another," Acting Hunterdon County Prosecutor Michael J. Williams said alongside Chief of Detectives Frank R. Crisologo. Shilling was arrested Nov. 5 and charged with third degree fraud in casting a mail-in vote, third degree tamper…

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by Cecilia Levine