To the Editor:

A SandPaper article, published on Nov. 16, stated that absentee ballots changed the outcomes of the Beach Haven Council and Long Beach Island school board elections. When reading the piece, I found myself more startled by the importance of every vote than by the importance of absentee ballots.

In the race for a spot on the LBI Board of Education, the final votes came out to 191 for the incumbent Marilyn Wasilewski and 181 for the challenger Nancy Spark. This is a 10-vote difference.

November 23, 2016