Stocker's mayoral win certified by elections board

YOUNGSTOWN

It’s official ... finally.

The Nov. 3 general election that gave write-in candidate Terry Stocker a third four-year term as Struthers mayor was certified Saturday by the Mahoning County Board of Elections.

The final vote, after the board verified and counted provisional and late-arriving absentee ballots for the county was 1,431 for Stocker and 1,359 for Democrat Danny Thomas Jr., said Mark Munroe, elections board chairman.

The count could also slightly alter other vote totals across the county.

In other action, the elections board agreed to conduct a hand recount of the anti-fracking charter amendment, the so-called Community Bill of Rights, beginning Dec. 1.

Read more about the matters in Sunday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.