Congratulations to the RISE for Teaneck challenger slate of 4 candidates which can provisionally be assured of having won three of the four open seats in the Town’s seven-member Council. That means that candidates Belcher, Gee, Goldberg and Young will have performed exceedingly well, as Teaneck Voices had hoped and believed they would.

The RISE slate will have been successful while expending campaign funds less than half of what will prove to have been spent by the slate led by 24-year incumbent Elie Y. Katz. Only the results for Katz were strong enough to put him in a position to be potentially elected – as each of the other 4 candidates were more than 1400 votes off the pace. (see image below)

However, it remains much too early in the vote counting process to make definitive statements about the results of the November 2022 election for 4 members of Teaneck Council. That is true for two reasons:

1)   The available vote totals among the top five candidates are relatively close. Only 129 votes separate the top 3^rd, 4^th and 5^th place candidates – in an election where more than 14,400 Teaneck voters participated; and

2) The number of votes which will ultimately be certified by the County is unknown because 3 categories of votes remain to be added to the already completed vote counting:

a.      An indeterminate number of Vote-By-Mail ballots remain to be counted – indeed until COB on Monday 11/14 the County is required to count Mail-in Ballots which were postmarked bu USPS before 8 pm on election day, 11/8; and

b.    None of the provisional ballots submitted for a variety of reasons on election day can be counted until the County is in a position to know whether voters who submitted those “provisionals” are truly eligible to vote and have not previously submitted ballots in this election; and

c.      Votes of voters whose ballots were rejected for, for example, having signatures that did not match County registration signatures who have been given a chance to “cure” whatever made their first ballot unacceptable. This is a County evaluation process which will apparently begin on Wednesday 11/16 and be completed by 11/18.

However, despite the uncertainties, here in the image below is the best current summary of the results thus far tabulated. Look carefully. The County Clerk has listed the 9 Council candidates in the image below in the order they appeared on the ballot – which is not the order of their election success for which you need to consult the actual numbers in the image. The same data can also be seen if you Click Here.