Donnelly Celebrates, DeBar Won't Concede

By Krista Madsen and Sarah Studley

The votes aren’t fully counted—see the latest results in our ongoing Election Hub here—but the few races that were even contested seem fairly determined in the towns of Mount Pleasant and Ossining.

Serving both Ossining and part of Briarcliff Manor, Catherine Borgia is looking like she’s secured another term of County Legislator for District 9 against the 27-year-old councilman Peter Tripodi, with 58 percent of the votes (and 82 percent of the votes counted).

District 3 Republican Michael Smith was re-elected without contest.

In the Town of Ossining, 

it’s unknown yet how many write-in votes last-minute candidate Don DeBar may have secured in his protest of what’s happening with the Ossining Boat and Canoe Club.

At the moment, with 80 percent of districts reporting, incumbent Supervisor Susanne Donnelly has 3,413 votes.

DeBar backer Meaddows Ryan, Trustee of the OBCC, said their camp has not given up hope and is trying to calculate just how many votes they may have when the Westchester County Board of Elections has not.

“Election math is hard!” Ryan wrote this morning. “The receiver of taxes here, Gloria Fried, got more votes than current town supervisor Donnelly, by about 500. If this was a super-simplified process, you could figure that, based on this, those 500 votes are what went to Don DeBar, but in a four-day activist campaign, it's possible that people came out to cast one vote only: the write-in, in which case those people would not show up in the Donnelly/Fried number as there would have been no electronic vote counted.”

Ryan said DeBar would not concede “until all the votes have been counted.”

Donnelly on the other hand said she was celebrating last night as her victory was clear. She said she knows there were 300 write-in votes for the Supervisor slot. "We don’t know the names on them but the machine counts them." 

What's next for her? "Back to work," Donnelly said.

The councilman spots are clear on the other hand with democrats Kim Jeffrey and Northern Wilcher holding a huge lead over Glenn Oldhoff, Jr.

Also the Superintendent of Highways goes to Michael O’Connor with the large majority of the votes.

The Town of Mount Pleasant

The Village of Ossining 

sees two returning and unchallenged Trustees, Robert Daraio and Manual Quezada though in the heat of a recent conflict between Daraio and a Catholic Church some said they’d write in a vote for Saint Lucia.