Norwalk election notes: Waiting for results

Updated, 4:14 p.m.: More information.

NORWALK, Conn. — Some Norwalk electoral numbers for you:

• Glitch holds up final election results
• Smyth did get a lot of votes – but not that many
• A little-known victory

Where are the final numbers?

Two years ago, Norwalk Democratic Registrar Stuart Wells released final election results the day after voting occurred. This year, the results have not yet been released.

“{T}here is a glitch in something for Columbus leaving no place to enter the results for Darlene Young and Ernie Dumas,” Wells wrote Thursday. “I can’t submit the corrections until the glitch is fixed and the system doesn’t create any new results to hand out until ALL the missing info is entered. I was just informed by the state that they can fix the glitch but that will wipe out all the data currently in the system from election night.”

When the state does that, “I will start reentering every single number. That is about 8 hours of very detailed work when you count double checking and proofreading, etc. I may well not have better numbers to give you until next week! I can’t work on this from home because I can’t take the official tapes and reports home because they are official documents.”

Smyth’s Working Families total also a glitch

NancyOnNorwalk reported Wednesday that Common Council member Barbara Smyth (D-At Large) had gotten more votes in the election than Mayor Harry Rilling. Not so fast.

Those numbers were based on Election Night totals collected by the Democratic Town Committee. Wells said Thursday that, “There is one typo for Barbara Smyth’s working families number for West Rocks – she was given about 1,050 instead of the 50 she should have gotten, which is why her working families total is about 1,000 more than the rest of the Council At Large Dems.”

That would give Smyth 8,578 votes, to Rilling’s 8,777.

McQuaid tops Rilling

There is one person who got more Democratic votes than Rilling: Republican Town Clerk Rick McQuaid.

McQuaid was cross endorsed, meaning he was endorsed by two parties. McQuaid received 8,827 votes on the Democratic line and 6,033 votes on the Republican line, according to the Election Night tally.

It’s the source of laughter in the Town Clerk’s Office. McQuaid has said in the past that votes like this are indicative of how many people voted along party lines. Not that it’s scientific.

Brinton, the Republican-endorsed candidate, received 7,043 votes according to Wells.