Meehan wins 452-369

[Manorhaven Newz]

Final score and final. Environemental Party wins all 3 seats. Goodbye Giunta!

[Patch Work Crap]

PT WASH PATCH GETS IT WRONG

But as of 1 a.m., all three Revival Party candidates have unofficially won seats on the Village of Board of Trustees, despite being forced to run as write-in candidates.

A recount should go on through the night, according to the candidates, who remain inside Village Hall with their lawyers as the process goes on.

Unofficially, mayoral candidate and Revival Party leader Giovanna Giunta came in with 484 votes to current Mayor Michael T. Meehan's 448 votes. In the at-large trustee election, Revival Party candidates Mark Lazarovic and Dorit Zeevi-Farrington received 498 and 495 votes, respectively, while Environment Party candidate and current trustee Brendan P. Fahey got 430 votes and running mate Patrick B. Gibson garnered 437 votes.

While the Revival Part hasn't yet officially declared victory, they remain "cautiously optimistic," according to Zeevi-Farrington.

Members of the Environment Party were unavailable for comment and didn't return phone calls as they remained inside Village Hall with their lawyers during the vote count and the current recount. Media members and local residents were kept outside Village Hall by an officer from Nassau County's Sixth Precinct who was guarding the door.

Zeevi-Farrington came outside after getting the unofficial results and said, "To accomplish this as write-in candidates is a spectacular achievement."

A large crowd started to congregate outside Village Hall after polls closed at 9 p.m. and remained there past midnight awaiting results.

"I feel like this is the old that we're taking back," said Bernadette Dolan, a Manhasset Isle resident who voted for Giunta for mayor.

Lee Tu, who challenged Jon Kaiman for Town of North Hempstead Supervisor this past November, added, "Good government has to start at the village level, people are no longer content to sit at the sidelines and this proves it."

Port Washington Patch will report official election results when they