November 5, 2008 - 1:55am
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Burry retains freeholder seat, while Mallet still battling Curley for control of second seat

Freeholder Director Lillian Burry

Monmouth County Freeholder Director Lillian Burry won comfortably tonight, but the second seat remains up for grabs with provisional ballots left to be counted, according to the Monmouth County Clerk’s Office.

Burry won with 136,875 votes.  As it stands now, Democrat Amy Mallet leads Republican John Curley by 18 votes, or 135,688 to 135,670.

Mallet’s running mate, Glenn Mason, lost with 127,699 votes.

“I was told that tomorrow they will begin the process of counting 435 bags of provisional ballots,” said Democratic Party operative Pat Politano.

Max Pizarro is a PolitickerNJ.com Reporter and can be reached via email at max@politicsnj.com.

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