WATCH: Clarkstown School District Counts Votes

CLARKSTOWN, NY — Clarkstown school district officials plan to livestream the vote-counting process Tuesday. The vote process is "closed" as of 5 p.m.

The canvassing process will be livestreamed on https://www.ccsd.edu/boestream.

Here's the district's plan:

• The inspectors of the election shall examine the sealed oath envelopes and determine if there is cause to reject any of the ballots. For example, an oath envelope that is not signed must be rejected under the law. These unsigned oath envelopes will be returned unopened to the District Clerk and set aside in accordance with Education Law § 2018-a(10). Upon verification of the oath envelope, the election inspectors will initial next to the name of the voter contained in the register. See Education Law § 2018-a(10).
• Once the verification process is complete, the election inspectors will withdraw the folded absentee ballot and place it in a holding box. See Education Law § 2034(1). The absentee ballot shall remain folded and the box will be shaken once the ballots are placed in the holding box. This ensures the ballot will not be linked to the oath envelope in which it was returned and, thus, preserves the anonymity of each individual voter.
• The absentee ballots will then be removed from the holding box and unfolded. The election inspectors will canvass the ballots by scanning them through Rockland County Board of Election machines.
• In canvassing the ballots, the election inspectors shall determine whether any absentee ballots shall be declared void or blank in accordance with Education Law § 2034. If a ballot is declared void or blank, it will be placed in a sealed envelope that is endorsed by the election inspector. See Education Law § 2034(5).
• The election inspectors will announce to the chairman the results of the canvassing of the absentee ballots. See Education Law § 2034(5). After all of the ballots have been canvassed and the results have been announced to the chairman, all absentee ballots, as well as the sealed envelopes containing voided or blank ballots, will be placed in a ballot box (or boxes). The ballot box (or boxes) will then be sealed and shall not be reopened unless permitted pursuant to Education Law § 2034(6).
• The chairman of the election shall then declare the results of the budget vote and election and the declaration shall be recorded by the District Clerk. See Education Law §§ 2034(7)(a) and (8).
• Subsequent to the declaration of the results, the District’s Board of Education will convene to accept the results of the budget vote and election. See Education Law § 2034(7)(b).

Board of Education

There are three candidates running for two seats on the Board of Education: School trustees serve three year terms and are unpaid.

• Phillip DeGaetano
• Zizette Deutsch (incumbent)
• David Gosman (incumbent)

School budget

• Proposed for 2020-21: $212,814,204
• Decrease over current spending: $4.1 million
• Tax levy increase: 1.4 percent

Second proposition: Establish capital reserve fund