LAKEWOOD: Opposition to Smaller School Board Widens in Unofficial Mail-Ballot Count

Opposition to reducing the size of the Lakewood Board of Education widened in an unofficial count updated November 5, according to Jersey Intel's report on the Ocean County Clerk's figures.

The school-board question had 12,048 votes against the change and 5,463 in favor. The proposal would reduce the board from nine members to seven.

The updated figures added 589 votes to the No side and 92 to the Yes side compared with the earlier count of 11,459 to 5,371. Jersey Intel reported that the changes came entirely from additional mail-in ballots.

The figures put opposition at 68.8% and support at 31.2% in that update. They are unofficial totals, not a certified final result or a new count released today.

This report concerns the size of the school board, a separate question from the election of individual board members.

The lead image is an archive photograph of a voting booth in Summit, New Jersey, not a photograph of Lakewood's ballot count.