Boston to hold recounts for mayoral, District 7 City Council races
The Boston Electoral contest Department will hold two recounts for the mayoral and District City Council races on Saturday based on petitions from two candidates who were eliminated in last week s preliminary ballot The District recount was requested by Mavrick Afonso who finished third by votes in a tightly-contested -way preliminary for the Roxbury-centric District seat vacated by disgraced former Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson The mayoral recount was requested by Domingos DaRosa who finished third in the mayoral primary to Mayor Michelle Wu and Josh Kraft who has since dropped out after a -point shellacking by Wu The Boston Board of Referendum Commissioners certified recount petitions for Afonso for four of the six wards located in District and The board also certified petitions from DaRosa for five of the wards and The recount will take place Saturday at a m at the Boston Ballot Department which is located at City Hall As things as of now stand for the mayoral race Wu would be the only name listed on the general voting ballot She is running for a second term Kraft officially removed his name from the ballot last Friday which would have allowed DaRosa as the third-place finisher to replace him on the Nov general voting ballot had he garnered at least votes to match the number of signatures he needed to get on the preliminary ballot per state law DaRosa a neighborhood activist received votes according to city vote results We re asking for a recount because Boston deserves to have an electoral process in November not just a pass DaRosa reported the Herald Wednesday People came out and participated and to be let down by the Kraft campaign pulling out has left a void in the city This is uncharted waters The two winners in last week s preliminary voting for District were Declared Coach Ahmed a longtime Boston Inhabitants Schools educator and coach who founded the Boston United Track and Cross Country initiative and Miniard Culpepper senior pastor of the Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church Related Articles Boston Legacy FC secures M in financing kicking ball forward on White Stadium soccer plan Boston city councilor s push to ban motorbike deliveries falls flat with colleagues Ex-Boston City Hall employee sues city mayor over declares she was fired to protect top Wu official Destroyed Boston city councilor eyes ban on motorbike deliveries Can no longer be the Wild West Boston councilors decry crime as city stiffs police crime lab by million Afonso who works in the Healey administration s Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities finished third with fewer votes than Culpepper With so much at stake for District voters deserve certainty that every ballot was counted correctly Afonso stated in a report This isn t about politics It s about protecting the integrity of our democracy The District seat on the City Council has been vacant since early July when Fernandes Anderson resigned after being convicted on two federal corruption charges tied to a City Hall kickback scheme She was sentenced to one month in prison earlier this month and has to analysis to prison on Oct
