Pelham Manor election recount scheduled for December 2 in White Plains; Lapey leads Cardwell by 20 votes, Case ahead of Kurtz by 2

By Greg Farrell • November 25, 2025

Pelham Manor residents voting on November 4 at the OLPH gym

The Westchester County Board of Elections has scheduled the recount for the Pelham Manor mayoral and trustee races for December 2, according to a notice sent today to the candidates.

“The Manual Recount of Absentee/Affidavit ballots and Machine Ballots will begin on Tuesday, December 2, 2025 and will take place at 445 Hamilton Ave, 8th Floor, White Plains, NY 10601. The canvass of these ballots conducting the Manual Recount will commence at 11:00 AM, until all ballots have been recounted,” the statement said.

The election officials will review all ballots cast in the mayoral race between incumbent Jennifer Monachino Lapey and Mark Cardwell, in which she holds a 20-vote lead, as well as the Board of Trustees race, in which incumbent Tim Case leads Ryan Kurtz by two votes. The recount is expected to conclude that same day.

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Greg Farrell, Executive Director

Greg Farrell became executive director of the Pelham Examiner in June 2025, following the retirement of Rich Zahradnik, who cofounded the Examiner in 2018 alongside 24 Pelham students. Farrell began his journalism career more than 40 years ago at the Swampscott Reporter, a Massachusetts weekly. He reported on town meetings, profiled residents and covered controversial development projects. He subsequently served as a bureau chief at Adweek magazine, a white-collar crime reporter at USA Today, a Wall Street correspondent at the Financial Times and a senior reporter at Bloomberg News. He wrote “Crash of the Titans,” a book about the collapse of Merrill Lynch and its sale to Bank of America during the financial crisis of 2008. He taught high school earlier in his career and currently teaches CCD to middle schoolers at St. Catharine’s. He and his wife Cathy Taylor moved to Pelham in 2000 and raised two children here.

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Scott Wolfgang • Nov 25, 2025 at 2:55 pm

I believe the trustees’ terms end prior to the recount date. It may be worth checking in with the county how they plan to deal with this. The November election will leave us either without a quorum or a certification prior to a recount.


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