No Change In Gloucester Twp. BOE Race As County Updates Totals

GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP, NJ — As postmarked ballots continue to come in to the Camden County Board of Elections, vote totals from Tuesday’s elections are beginning to be updated.

As of 3 p.m., though, there were no updates to the unofficial results in the Gloucester Township Public School District K-8 Board of Education race.

When counting paused Tuesday night, Mary Ann Johnson, Mary Jo Dintino and Ellen Reese were the leading vote getters in a field of seven candidates, according to unofficial results posted on the county's website.

Johnson had 8,962 votes, followed by Dintino with 8,308 votes and Reese with 8,277. Jose Fontanez was fourth with 7,601 votes, followed by Linda Gilch (7,246), Eleanor "Patti" Senner (6,070) and Joanne Rossell (5,852).

There were 207 write-in votes, and 52,523vote-by-mail ballots had been counted. No provisional ballots had been counted as of Wednesday afternoon.

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Camden County officials had no information as to how many ballots were outstanding, or what the timeline would be for ballots to be counted.

The numbers in the presidential election were updated on Wednesday. With 93.33 percent of the vote in, Democrat Joe Biden had 71.61 percent of the vote in Camden County. President Donald Trump had 27.21 percent of the vote.

Biden had 105,963 votes. In 2016, Democrat Hillary Clinton had 117,308 votes in Camden County. Trump had 40,258 votes in this year’s election, compared to 59,716 in Camden County four years ago.

Libertarian candidate Jo Jorgensen had 730 votes in Camden County this year, followed by Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins with 342 votes. Four candidates had fewer than 100 votes, and there were 207 write-ins.

In the U.S. Senate race, incumbent Democrat Cory Booker won 71.33 percent of the vote in Camden County. Republican challenger Rik Mehta won 27.69 percent of the vote. Rep. Donald Norcross (D-1) won 71.79 percent of the vote over Republican challenger Claire Gustafson's 28.02 percent.

Patch will update results as more votes are counted.