Votes Continue To Trickle In For 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, Catherine Kazan is leading all candidates with Donald Pavlak, Jr. and Sean Duffy currently in position to claim the remaining two seats.

Here's the unofficial tally so far:

• Donald Pavlak, Jr. — 16,458
• Catherine M. Kazan — 15,788
• Sean Duffy — 15,477
• Abigail Giordano — 15,068

According to unofficial county totals, only 63 percent of the vote has been counted with just a few days remaining until they must be certified.

207,812 voters turned in ballots during the General Election, according to the county so far.

Passaic County posted a note on their website with a bit of guidance for folks seeking updated results.

"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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