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Select Board schedules public recount of March 10 election, names recount panel
Summary
Town elections official told the Kensington Select Board a recount requested for the March 10 election will be held Wednesday, beginning at 9 a.m.; the board named substitute members for the three‑person recount panel and asked a candidate to recuse himself from service.
The Kensington Select Board heard that a recount requested for the March 10 election will be held Wednesday and that the town office will be closed for the day for counting, the town elections official said.
The elections official described the recount process and the panel the board intends to use: Russell Perry will serve as assistant moderator and Mike Schwozer will join as the interim selectman on the three‑member board, and the official asked candidate Ian O’Reilly to recuse himself from serving to avoid a conflict. "We're expecting it's going to take 4 to 6 hours," the elections official said, and the town will assemble a public session to open ballots and publicly announce the recount results.
The official said the town will examine about 2,600 ballots to pull roughly 868 ballots for further review, and called the hand‑count work "a very arduous pass and very exact." The official added that the last recount did not change results and said, "I do not expect this one to change the results, but anything that happened."
The board agreed to the scheduling and the proposed panel; the transcript records the appointments and the recusal request, but does not include a formal roll‑call vote of the board on the record in the provided text.
The recount will begin at 9:00 a.m.; members and residents were advised to expect a multi‑hour process and that the town office will be closed during the count.
