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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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