In Uncontested Elections,

Write-In Votes Multiply

COOPERSTOWN – In uncontested elections like Tuesday’s in Cooperstown, perhaps the only way to cast a protest vote is to write in – for Donald Duck?

Mr. Duck – it seems he doesn’t even live here! – was written in for mayor of Cooperstown, as were Cathe Ellsworth, the newspaper columnist; Joan Clark, the venerable grande dame of Main Street; former Mayor Carol B. Waller, and a John Hockenbach; no one seemed sure who he might be.

Incumbent Jeff Katz’s was handily reelected.

Against trustee candidate Bruce Maxson, Ellsworth, Joan Clark and Hockenbach each received votes.

And in trustee candidate Richard Sternberg’s line, former trustees Pam Washburn and Chuck Hage received single votes.  So did Dennis Tallman, the retired forester who lived in the Town of Otsego, not the village, and, yes, Mr. Hockenbach.