Freeholder race will not be determined until Friday

County Clerk M.Claire French said today that the Monmouth County Freeholders race will not be determined until Friday, November 9.

In unofficial results that include absentee ballots, Republican Freeholder Rob Clifton has 62,593 votes, Democrat D'Amico has 62,528 votes and Republican Jeffrey Cantor has 62,212. The top two vote getters will be sworn in as Freeholders in January.

There are two voting machine cartridges from Long Branch and one from Ocean Township that are uncounted. Additionally there are between 400 and 500 provisional ballots from throughout the county that must be validated and then counted by the Board of Elections. The provisional ballots cannot be counted until Friday, due to the requirement upon the Board of Elections to advertise their meeting to count the ballots, according to French.