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2018 MIDTERM ELECTIONS

Devlin-Fernandez

Final Count Due

By Next Friday

GOP Chairman: Absentee, Affidavit

Ballots Usually Track Day-Of Tally

By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

Sheriff's candidate Fernandez, left, is 1,036 votes behind Sheriff Devlin, but won't concede until absentee and affidavit votes are counted.

COOPERSTOWN – With candidate Bob Fernandez unwilling to concede, the outcome of the Otsego County sheriff’s race will be uncertain until Nov. 16, a week from tomorrow, according to the county Board of Elections.

Lori Lehenbauer, the Republican commissioner, said the canvassing – the tallying of absentee and affidavit ballots – will begin next Wednesday, the 14th, on about 1,500 of the 1,949 absentee ballots sent out and 319 affidavit ballots cast day-of at polling places around Otsego County.

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