Sarah Mello Officially Wins Collingswood School Board Seat

Philadelphia PA

13 November, 2019

2:06 PM

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COLLINGSWOOD, NJ — Sarah Mello is officially the newest member of the Collingswood Public School District Board of Education. The Camden County Clerk's Office posted official results for the Nov. 5 elections Wednesday afternoon, after provisional, absentee and mail-in ballots were tallied. Mello won 287 votes via write-in, joining Clinton Connor and Siria Rivera as the winners in the school board elections. Three full-term seats were up for grabs in the elections, but Connor and Rivera were the only two candidates to file official petitions by July's deadline. Rivera was the top vote-getter with 2,085 votes, followed by Connor with 2,039 votes. Mello had 287 of the 386 total write-in votes. Mello launched a write-in campaign to win a seat in the absence of a third balloted candidate, NJ Pen reports. According to the New Jersey School Boards Association, if there are fewer candidates running than there are number of seats available, the person who gets the highest number of write-in votes will be offered the final seat if they are a qualified candidate. See related: Write-In Candidate May Have Won Collingswood School Board Seat