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MINDEN — Voters on Tuesday re-elected convicted and imprisoned sex
offender Thomas Yager to the Town Board. He resigned from that
office in July after he was charged with sexually abusing a child on
a Fort Plain bus while working as an aide. Still, his name appeared
on the ballot.

What happens next is “complicated,” according to John Conklin,
director of public information for the state’s Board of Elections.

“Conviction is not necessarily a bar to (the) office unless the
individual is in office when convicted,” Conklin said. “It’s really
the fact that he can’t meet the qualifications for the office.”

Over the summer, the town tried to figure out whether or not Yager
could be removed from the ballot when Supervisor Cheryl Reese
reportedly reached out to the Montgomery County Board of Elections,
said Democratic Commissioner Terry Bieniek.

But the state notified county officials in late August that they
could not remove Yager’s name from the ballot while felony charges
of first-degree sexual abuse were still unresolved in both
Montgomery and Fulton Counties.

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