Bethel has completed a hand recount of ballots from Election Day to determine the winners of a couple of close races. The outcome of the election did not change the close win of John Lennon for Board of Finance and of Patrick Morton for Police Commission.  The recount started at 10am and wrapped up shortly before 6pm. In the recanvass of the returns of the voting machines, absentee ballots and write-in ballots, 4,504 ballots were examined by teams of two from opposite parties to identify mismarked ballots that possibly were not read by the ballot tabulator to reflect the voter's intent. Such ballots were hand counted.