Challenge to Asbury election yet to be filed
Losing A-Team slate has until June 13 deadline
A challenge to the results of the Asbury Park city council election has yet to be filed, according to Monmouth County court staff on Friday.
The losing A-Team slate has repeatedly vowed to challenge the results of the May 14 election, specifically to request the opening of 320 voided vote by mail ballots — enough to change the election results.
The deadline to file a challenge to the election is June 13, according to the website of the New Jersey Division of Elections. State law allows an election challenge on a claim that enough legal votes were uncounted to change an election result.
The deadline to file a recount of the voting machines and other ballots was May 29, according to the Division of Elections website. No recount was filed.
A-Team candidates had previously stated that Monmouth County Republican Chairman John Bennett would be handling the election challenge. Bennett has not responded to repeated requests for comment about the status of the case.
The new five-member Council is scheduled to be sworn in on July 1.
According to official results, the winners are John Moor, Amy Quinn and Myra Campbell of the One Asbury ticket, along with incumbents John Loffredo and Susan Henderson of the Forward Asbury ticket.
The A-Teams’s Jim Keady, a former Councliman, is within 173 votes of fifth-place winner Henderson. Duanne Small of the A-Team is within 176 votes of Henderson. Fourth-place winner Campbell is an additional two votes away.
On the A-Team, the three highest vote getters were Keady with 447 votes, Small with 444 and Daniel Harris with 430. The three lowest winning candidates were incumbent Henderson with 620 votes, Campbell with 622 and incumbent John Loffredo with 654.
The two other winners were John Moor with 723 votes and Amy Quinn with 716. Ousted incumbent Kevin Sanders remains in sixth place with 596 votes.
Of the 320 uncounted vote by mail ballots, 236 were voided because of a failure to list information about who assisted voters with the initial application for the ballot.
Twenty two candidates competed for the five seats. The term of office is four years.
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