Pavlak, Kazan, Duffy Lead In Wayne Board Of Education Race

WAYNE, NJ — In a close Wayne Board of Education race, three front-runners have materialized, but only a couple hundred votes separate the four candidates.

According to unofficial results from Passaic County, Donald Pavlak, Jr. is leading all candidates with Catherine Kazan and Sean Duffy currently in position to claim the remaining two seats.

Abigail Giordano is the odd one out in the race with three seats available, but only 210 votes separate her from Duffy.

Here's the unofficial tally so far:

• Donald Pavlak, Jr. — 11,946
• Catherine M. Kazan — 11,580
• Sean Duffy — 11,234
• Abigail Giordano — 11,024

Passaic County posted a note on their website with a bit of guidance for folks seeking updated results throughout the day (and week).

"Due to the high volume of mail-in ballots in the primarily vote-by-mail November 3, 2020 General Election, the mail-in ballot count will continue after Election Day. The County Clerk’s Office will be posting unofficial election results as they become available and these results will be updated on a continual basis. Ballots postmarked on or before Election Day and received by November 10, 2020 will be included as the tallies are updated. Election results will include tallies from votes that were cast on ADA-accessible voting devices on Election Day."

Since the change to this year's election was announced by Gov. Phil Murphy because of the coronavirus, there have been many questions about how the process will work.

Every the ballot sent through the mail had to be postmarked by Nov. 3. It must be received by your county's election boards by 8 p.m. on Nov. 10.

"Every vote should be safe. Every vote should be secure. Every vote should be counted," Murphy said of the process.

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