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		<title>Strong Election Day Turnout in Cecil County, Mail-In Ballots Not Yet Tallied; Initial Results Show Likely Dixon School Board Win</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2022 10:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County voters turned out in force for in-person voting on Tuesday (11/8/2022), but the final outcomes of multiple races will not be determined until the completion of the next week and a half of scheduled Board of Elections (BOE) counts of mail-in and provisional ballots. But initial counts in the District 4 school board contest indicate an upset win for Renee Dixon over incumbent William Malesh. In two County Council races with organized write-in vote campaigns, the mechanics of vote counting showed totals of all write-ins from in-person early voting and Election Day ballots but did not yet allocate any votes to the declared write-in candidates. (Ballot scanners automatically register marked ovals indicating a write-in vote was being cast, but a separate BOE staff review is required to allocate those votes to candidates who have formally qualified under election rules to be counted by name.) But the initial counts indicate that even when write in votes are eventually counted, the uphill challenges to winners of the Republican primary in Districts 2 and 4 are unlikely to succeed. Five amendments to the county Charter, mostly designed to address problems that have emerged during the first two years of Danielle Hornberger’s [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Votes:  County Council, School Board Races, Charter Changes Top Election Issues; Mail-in Ballot Count to be Delayed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County voters go to the polls for in-person voting on Tuesday (11/8/2022) to decide three County Council races, three school board contests, and several county Charter proposed changes, but the final outcome of the voter decisions will not be known for more than a week. The local Board of Elections (BOE) will not even begin to count mail-in ballots until Thursday, two days after Election Day. Complicating the election tally is the unusual presence of two write-in candidates for County Council who have gone through the official candidate registration process that will require the BOE to count and record their votes. Scanners will identify a marked oval for a write in candidate, but BOE staff will have to review the ballot to record the name, according to Doug Walker, the Cecil County BOE director. Former County Council President Joyce Bowlsbey is running as a write-in candidate against political newcomer and Republican Rebecca Hamilton in District 2, which Bowlsbey represented as a Republican for six years before retiring from the post. Former County Commissioner Phyllis Kilby is running as an “unaffiliated” independent write-in candidate against Donna Culberson, a Republican who was appointed last year to fill a vacancy in District [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Andy Harris, GOP $ Turn “Nonpartisan” School Board Races into Political Power Grab; New Annapolis PAC Push for Partisan Control of Cecil Co Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2022 00:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Campaigns for seats on the five-member Cecil County Board of Education are, by law, nonpartisan and candidates usually run low budget, mostly self-financed campaigns. But not this year, when Republican elected officials and a new political action committee created by former County Finance Director James Appel are promoting three GOP-aligned school board candidates on the general election ballot. Rep. Andy Harris (R-1) gave the PAC the maximum donation allowed by law, according to state Board of Elections records. Direct donations by County Executive Danielle Hornberger and her closest local political ally, County Councilor Jackie Gregory, indicate they are looking to install new school board members who will side with them on fiscal and other issues. In her two budgets as county executive, Hornberger provided the bare minimum level of school funds required by state law, after cutting budget proposals submitted by the current school board. If her allies take over a majority of the board, they could cut the proposed schools budget for her, before it even reaches her desk, so she would not have to take political responsibility for school spending cuts in the overall county budget. Hornberger and Gregory are expected to seek re-election in 2024. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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