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Fairport mayoral election won't be decided until next Friday

The race for Fairport village mayor is down to about 50 mail-in and affidavit ballots after elections officials finished tallying early voting and Election Day write-ins on Friday.

Write-in candidate Tracy Briggs leads Democratic candidate Heidi Woika by 43 votes, according to the Monroe County Board of Elections.

Briggs received 1,295 of the 1,319 write-ins. The remaining ballots will be scanned next Friday, Nov. 20.

Brian Sharp is WXXI's investigations and enterprise editor. He also reports on business and development in the area. He has been covering Rochester since 2005. His journalism career spans nearly three decades.