More Votes Counted In Warren Committee, School Election

WARREN, NJ — Somerset County has updated its vote tally on Friday. Here are the latest election results for the Warren Township Committee and School Board races.

As of Friday night, the Somerset County Board of Elections has counted 176,918 vote-by-mail ballots out of the roughly 256,000 ballots sent out countywide.

Here are the latest unofficial results:

• George Lazo: 5,441
• Michael "Mick" C. Marion: 5,364
• John Patrick Fahy: 4,019
• Ilana Goldstein-Barsky: 3,947

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Warren Township School Board also has a contested race with five candidates vying for three, three-year seats.

• Laura Keller: 4,170
• David Brezee (Incumbent): 3,357
• Todd Weinstein: 3,072
• Christian Bellmann (Incumbent): 2,976
• Eric D. Winch: 2,136

Lori Ruckstuhl-Clar is also running unopposed for the one, one-year unexpired seat.

• Lori Ruckstuhl-Clar: 6,048

For Watchung Hills Regional School Board, Peter Fallon is running for the one, three-year seat representing Warren and Michael Birnberg is running of the one, three-year seat representing Watchung.

• Peter Fallon: 6,524

As of Friday, Nathan Rudy, the spokesman for Somerset County, said there are about 11,000 vote-by-mail ballots left to count and then provisional ballots will be counted. Official results are not expected until Nov. 20 at the earliest.

Somerset County saw a record number of people who came out to vote, Rudy said.

With more than 180,000 votes counted for 2020 versus just over 160,000 votes in the 2016 Presidential election.

• Read More: Here's Why We Don't Have Final Election Results In NJ

For full coverage of the 2020 election in New Jersey, go here: New Jersey Elections 2020

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