8:24PM: DEVICO LEADS GANDY..WITH ABSENTEE BALLOTS IN MIDDLE TWP.

Coastal Broadcasting Systems has learned that democratic incumbent Jeff DeVico has a very early lead over republican Ike Gandy in a race for a Township Committee seat.  Absentees have given DeVico a 74 vote lead over Gandy with all of the votes cast at polling places still to be tallied up.