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The Enterprise — H. Rose Schneider

Quick conversation: Berne Republican Chairman Randy Bashwinger, left, discusses with Thomas Spargo — a former New York State Supreme Court Justice who was convicted of extortion and bribery — the absentee ballot canvass on Nov. 15 at the Albany County Board of Elections building in Albany. Bashwinger shortly after requested two ballots be left uncounted because they had been brought in by the town’s Democratic Party chairman who had surpassed the limit of absentee ballots he could collect.