The Lake County Board of Elections certified the Nov. 4 General Election results, which finally determined the winners of two very close races in Mentor: one for the school board and the other for council at large.

In a race to decide the three people who would represent the Board of Education Mentor Exempted Village as members, the results were decided by less than a dozen voters

The first two candidates weren't in question — Maggie Cook came out on top with 7,915 votes, and Robert Haag was second with 7,400 votes. But the third seat was a toss-up between Daniel Hardesty and Robert Izzo, with only a single vote separating them in the unofficial results.

On Tuesday morning, the board of elections certified its results, which showed that Hardesty won the race by 11 votes — 7,188 to Izzo'

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