Nassau officials continue paper ballot count
Quick ReadAt the close of counting on Wednesday, incumbent County Executive Thomas Suozzi was trailing Edward Mangano by 553 votes.
Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Nassau County Board of Elections workers, lawyers and observers count paper ballots, which will decide the race for county executive. (Nov. 17, 2009)
2009 Long Island elections
Thomas Suozzi through the years
Edward Mangano
Teams of Board of Elections employees and political party workers settled into a routine Wednesday as they went through their third day counting paper ballots in Nassau County's closely contested election races.
Some lawyers who showed up in suits for the first two days were in jeans Wednesday, and the buzz among the teams was whether they would have to work on the weekend after Thanksgiving....
