Conservative line for fall election set

NEW SCOTLAND — Democrats Adam Greenberg and Daniel Leinung will appear on the Conservative Party line for the fall election, according to official results from the Albany Board of Elections.

A very close primary vote in September left the candidates waiting until all absentee ballots were counted and write-in votes were determined.

Greenberg received 35 votes, Leinung received 30 votes, and Republican Craig A. Shufelt, who who petitioned for an opportunity to ballot, received 28 of 32 write-in votes. Republican Deputy Commissioner Ellen C. Graziano said that four of the ballots had the oval filled in for “write-in” but no name was written in.

There are 211 registered Conservatives in New Scotland.

At the time of the primary, Leinung told The Enterprise he reached out to neighbors who are registered with the Conservative Party and asked them to vote, and that he plans to build on that outreach for the general election.

At the time, Greenberg explained how, as a Democrat, he would reach out to Conservative voters: “I treat voters and their interests one-by-one,” he said. He pointed to taxes as one issue he feels Conservatives would agree he has done well on. He said he is “proud of our record on taxes in town, which we have kept as low as anyone else’s in Albany County.”

 

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