The numbers posted and updated on the official website throughout the night Tuesday were only from voting machines, said Sabrina Taranto, the elections division supervisor in the clerk’s office. Even then, the numbers on the Bergen County clerk’s website still showed them behind in the tally. So the turnaround was stunning when, shortly before midnight, a group of candidates emerged from the elevator with Commissioner Chairman Steven Tanelli leading the way, smiling brightly and shaking hands.ĭeclaring themselves winners, they took to the stage, jubilant. In every race, including clerk, sheriff and two Board of Commissioner seats, votes still widely favored Republicans. Candidates from local races started to call it a night and headed for the doors. As the crowd thinned, more numbers came through, and they weren’t good. Then he scurried back to the elevator to wait out the nail-biter with the candidates in a suite upstairs. “We’re waiting for more numbers, and the governor is in a dogfight, but we’re going to wait and see,” Paul Juliano said. He applauded the projected winners in the District 37 state Senate and Assembly races, Gordon Johnson, Ellen Park and Shama Haider.
More than 200 Democrats had gathered the night of the election in expectation of landslide party victories across the board. Instead, they watched the unthinkable happen as results rolled in and county Democratic candidates were losing in every race.Ībout 10:30 p.m., with 40% of the machine ballot totals posted, the party chairman decided to try to boost morale.
The mood was somber in the ballroom at Hilton Hasbrouck Heights.
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