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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>Former County Council President Joyce Bowlsbey Files Write-in Challenge to new Nominee Hamilton in Dist. 2;  “Experience Matters” Motto for General Election</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2022/09/former-county-council-president-joyce-bowlsbey-files-write-in-challenge-to-new-nominee-hamilton-in-dist-2-experience-matters-motto-for-general-election-campaign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2022 22:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joyce Bowlsbey, the former President of the Cecil County Council and a longtime leader in many county civic organizations, has filed as a write-in candidate in the November general election, seeking to reclaim her District 2 Council seat that she held for six years. She is opposing political newcomer Rebecca Hamilton, who won the recent Republican primary nomination for the seat as part of a “slate” of candidates financed largely by Del. Kevin Hornberger, the spouse of county executive Danielle Hornberger. Bowlsbey joins another write-in candidate, Phyllis Kilby, an eight-year veteran of the Cecil County Board of Commissioners and a leader in farm and civic groups. Kilby is running in November for a County Council seat now held by Donna Culberson (R-4), who was appointed to her seat last year and recently won the Republican nomination for the general election on the same Hornberger-backed “slate.” Both Bowlsbey and Kilby face an uphill fight, since their names will not appear on the printed ballot presented to voters. Instead, they will have to convince voters to write-in their names on the correct lines for the District 2 and District 4 Council races. By filing their write-in candidacies with the Board of Election, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Kilby Files as Write-in Rival to Culberson in Cecil Co Council Race; Ex-Co Commissioner Challenges Hornberger “Mismanagement”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2022 22:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phyllis Kilby, an eight-year veteran of the Cecil County Board of Commissioners and a leader in farm and civic groups, has filed with the Board of Elections (BOE) as a write-in candidate for the County Council seat now held by Donna Culberson (R-4), who was appointed to her seat last year and recently won the Republican nomination for the November general election. Kilby faces an uphill fight, since her name will not appear on the printed ballot presented to voters. Instead, she will have to convince voters to write-in her name on the correct line for the District 4 Council race. By filing her write-in candidacy with the BOE, with required financial disclosures and campaign committee documentation, her write-in votes will be counted by the Board of Elections. Write-in votes for people who have not gone through the paperwork hoops of the BOE are not counted. Kilby ran and won two terms for Commissioner as a Democrat, at a time when the Democrats held a majority party registration in the county, but Republicans currently hold a registration majority. Now, she is running as an “unaffiliated” or independent candidate, because, “I feel the problems facing our county require us all to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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