Borough election certified, preliminary results hold

Frontiersman Staff

PALMER — If there were any doubts that the election-night poll results would hold in this year’s borough election, they were put to rest Tuesday when the election was certified.

Given that 1,423 absentee votes were still outstanding after the ballots at the polls had been counted two weeks ago, some races didn’t seem quite finished.

For example, school district officials might have been forgiven for crossing their fingers when, on election night, the raft of $31.7 million in bonds to pay for school maintenance was down by just 483 votes. But the final tally saw the margin widen slightly to 544 votes.

A couple of days after the election, Jim Colver, who at the time had a 68-vote lead in his bid to represent Assembly District 6, predicted that he’d have a 100-vote lead once the final tally was in.

Looking at the numbers, it appears Colver was almost dead-on. The final tally put him 102 votes ahead of his closest competitor, Jim Turner.

Most of the other races weren’t quite as close. Ron Arvin and Vern Halter, bringing the tally of new faces on the assembly to three; the sales tax proposition failed; and voters chose to retain Borough Mayor Talis Colberg. On the school board, Sarah Welton kept her seat, as did Erick Cordero. Mike Dunleavy re[;aces Colver, who chose to run for assembly instead of school board.