Incumbent City Councilmembers Amy Quinn, Eileen Chapman and Yvonne Clayton lead in the first results reported in the City Council election, according to the website of Monmouth County Clerk Christine Hanlon.
Quinn received 1799 votes, Clayton received 1753 and Chapman received 1616.
Trailing the incumbents are Felicia Simmons with 787 votes, Kerry Margaret Bunch with 605 votes, Robert McKeon with 444 votes and Arthur Schlossbach with 356 votes.
These figures are as of early Wednesday, Nov. 4.
These are partial results. The Board of Elections is still counting mail-in ballots received by election day. There are additional categories of ballots that also need to be counted.
In Asbury Park, a total of 4,011 mail-in ballots were received by November 2, the day before the election, according to data provided by the Board of Elections. The report from the county clerk did not specify how many of those ballots have been counted.
In addition to still uncounted mail-in ballots, the following ballots also need to be counted: late mail-in ballots postmarked by election day but received up to seven days later, votes on election machines by eligible disabled voters on election day and provisional ballots. There were 627 provisional ballots cast, according to an unofficial Asbury Park count.
Provisional ballots are counted after all other ballots are counted. Provisional ballots are paper ballots cast by a voter at a polling place on election day which require further verification of the voter’s eligibility to vote.
Examples of those who may cast a provisional ballot are voters who did not receive a mail in ballot or who filled theirs out incorrectly and did return it.
County officials will confirm that person is eligible to vote and then open the ballot for counting. Eligibility standards include whether the voter is registered to vote, they are registered in the municipality where they cast their provisional ballot and they did not send in a mail-in ballot.
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